Acquiescence Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquiescence Eternal Insult Military Truth War Way
“No one goes unaffected by the aftereffects of war. How we embrace this truth shall determine our path into the future.” — Lawrence Winters Copy Share Image
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.” — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together.… — David Icke Copy Share Image