"Truth is great and will prevail if left……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors"
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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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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided…
— Joseph Addison
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
— James Madison
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,…
— Nathaniel Branden
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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