"The right to use a thing comprehends a……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless."
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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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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes…
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It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I…
— John G. Lake
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Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
— Albert Einstein
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Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases…
— Henry Mitchell
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings…
— Hannah Arendt
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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to…
— Samuel Johnson
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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
— Bruno Bettelheim
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In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending…
— Erich Heller
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