"It will be said that great societies cannot……" — Thomas Jefferson
"It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government."
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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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the…
— William Blake
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
— Nellie Bly
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
— Albert Camus
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
— Frances Wright
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
— John Keats
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
— Rajneesh
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology…
— Jean Genet
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
— Rajneesh
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