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Would Be Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- 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 instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
- The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
- If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed…
- A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
- Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
- To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
- The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,…
- That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without…
- Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
- 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…
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius