"It is the old practice of despots to……" — Thomas Jefferson
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
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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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One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be…
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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish…
— Plato
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The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged…
— Charles Fourier
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I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God…
— Antony Flew
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
— William Wells Brown
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United…
— Lajos Kossuth
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Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
— Knute Nelson
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In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical…
— David Brin
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The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots…
— Walter Lippmann
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