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«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
«It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.»
«There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world»
«Equal rights for all, special privileges for none»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
Equal rights, privileges, Rights and privileges
«The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country»
«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
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