The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Principles Quotes

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good...

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good...

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed...

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed...

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper...

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of...

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes...

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish...

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish...

The merchant has no country

The merchant has no country

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the...

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the...

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the...

The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the...

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in...

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in...

Love doesn't hurt, loving the wrong person does.

Love doesn't hurt, loving the wrong person does.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped,...

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped,...