"Our part is to pursue with steadiness what……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us."
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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 Approbation Quotes
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one of 43 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
— David Hume
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of…
— Joseph Addison
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his…
— Arthur Helps
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the…
— Thomas Reid
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Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our…
— Charles Darwin
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity.…
— Herbert Spencer
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as…
— William Golding
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to…
— John Wilmot
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