"Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error."
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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 Antagonist Quotes
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided…
— Joseph Addison
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
— James Madison
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,…
— Nathaniel Branden
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it…
— Emanuel Lasker
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