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Worthy Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that,…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
More Worthy Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. — Luis Barragan
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what… — Wendell Berry
- Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control… — Ambrose Bierce
- The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but… — Allan Bloom