"It is an axiom in my mind that……" — Thomas Jefferson
"It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men…
— Harry S. Truman
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques…
— Thomas Browne
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel…
— Augustus De Morgan
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on…
— Henry Sidgwick
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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
— Maxwell Maltz
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It…
— David Foster Wallace
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