"We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs……" — Thomas Jefferson
"We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government."
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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 are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United…
— Joe Barton
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in…
— Annie Besant
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to…
— Samuel Butler
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
— Willa Cather
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
— Bernie Siegel
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