"As, for the safety of society, we commit……" — Thomas Jefferson
"As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme 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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I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and…
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The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary…
— Thomas Traherne
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when…
— Fisher Ames
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Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean…
— Michael Hardt
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on…
— Tom Waits
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Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
— Jon Ronson
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or…
— Alexander Pope
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Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body…
— Arundhati Roy
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You…
— C.S. Lewis
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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real…
— Stephen King
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I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
— Nicola Formichetti
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