Higher Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Higher Law Preservation Self Self preservation Written
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will… — Anacharsis Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai 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 costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
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