"Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established."
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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and…
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore de Balzac
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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It…
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of…
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
— Wendell Berry
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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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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may…
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