Democracies have Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracies have Democracy Drug laws Drug prohibition Freedom Injury Inspirational Law Libertarian Liberty Limiting government Politics Prohibition
“This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally… — Wendy Brown Copy Share Image
Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams 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
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
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