"To constrain the brute force of the people,……" — Thomas Jefferson
"To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life."
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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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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
— Mary Kay Ash
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
— Muhammad Ali
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a…
— Jean Cocteau
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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
— Emily Dickinson
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring…
— Andre Sainte-Lague
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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