"And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son……" — Thomas Jefferson
"And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?"
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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 Degenerate Quotes
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one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the…
— Henry Rollins
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I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents.…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
— Seneca the Younger
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is…
— Adolf Hitler
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The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be…
— Isaac Newton
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they…
— Vaclav Havel
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble…
— John C. Maxwell
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government…
— John Quincy Adams
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A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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