"All... natural rights may be abridged or modified……" — Thomas Jefferson
"All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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More Abridged Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
— Dave Barry
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
— Berkeley Breathed
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion…
— James Madison
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of…
— James Madison
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In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names…
— Arthur Koestler
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Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state…
— Alice Paul
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of…
— Jason Epstein
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By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a…
— Judith Sargent Murray
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The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the…
— James Madison
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