Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
«Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
common law, construe, construed, Everything or Nothing, Rules of, rule of law, sought, subtleties, The Rule of Law
«Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used»
«In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
animal, animal rights, attempt, bull, determined, dispute, disputing, fevered, fiery, get by, in dispute, in fact, no-good, not for, principle, zealot, zealots
«Equal rights for all, special privileges for none»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
Equal rights, privileges, Rights and privileges
«I served with General Washington in the Legislature of Virginia... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
at a time, congress, Dr., Dr, franklin, legislature, Legislatures, main, point in time, served, Virginia, Washington
«Governments are republican only in proportion as they employ the will of the people and execute it»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
employ, execute, governments, proportion, Republican
«If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
bigotry, common sense, Obstacles, priestcraft, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting