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World Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
- I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
- I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
- [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of…
- The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the…
- You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
- The Bible makes the best people in the world.
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach