"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual."
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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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The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually…
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Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18…
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Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time…
— Paul Bartsch
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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came…
— Barack Obama
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the…
— Lois Capps
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