"I know of no safe depository of the……" — Thomas Jefferson
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves."
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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 Depository Quotes
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the…
— Pope Pius X
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Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the…
— Pope Pius XII
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The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within…
— John Sherman Cooper
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To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious…
— George Washington
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Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others…
— Tommy Tenney
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic…
— Susanna Moodie
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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind…
— Gerald R. Ford
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is…
— Jose Marti
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I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee…
— David Wong
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