American government Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American government Bill of rights Bread Capitalism Citizens Constitutional government Constitutional rights Democracies have Democracy in america Distribution of wealth Economic freedom Economics Forefathers Founders Founding Founding america Founding fathers democracy Free market capitalism Freedom Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Frugal Future of america Governing Government Government and politics Government politics Government regulation Inaugural Inaugural address Inspirational Labor Libertarian Libertarian party Liberty Limited freedom Limited government Limiting freedom Limiting government Mouths Not voting Our founding fathers Private property Property rights Redistribution of wealth Restraining Robber baron Socialism Tyranny founding fathers Us founding fathers Voting founding fathers
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job. — Gavin MacLeod Copy Share Image
Please GOD let me get full piece of bread at least by today, By a child in poverty — Vino Copy Share Image
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread. — Angelus Silesius 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
“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In general, the… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It also exposed… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t matter. It’s… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“American breweries preexisted American government; some of the breweries’ staunchest supporters were also the leaders of the new nation. In colonial America, the alehouse… — Marty Nachel Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul… — Walid Shoebat Copy Share Image