"There is a debt of service due from……" — Thomas Jefferson
"There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him."
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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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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you…
— Ibn Arabi
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But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and…
— Eleanor Clift
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace…
— Abraham Lincoln
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell…
— Frank Capra
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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and…
— Langston Hughes
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A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue…
— John Henninger Reagan
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