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United Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but…
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise…
- It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,…
- The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
- Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
- The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
- To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
- I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
- [An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and…
- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and…
- I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor…
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
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- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet