"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their……" — Thomas Jefferson
"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."
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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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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember…
— John of Kronstadt
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking…
— Jean Paul
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
— Ambrose
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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
— Thomas Aquinas
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When you see sparkling lights with no physical origin and no medical eye issues, it means that you are seeing…
— Doreen Virtue
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