X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2708)

Page 14 of 113
Filter & Style
Image
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
Image
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
Image
The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
George Washington
Image
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
P. T. Barnum
Image
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
You are uneasy you never sailed with me before, I see.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.
James Madison
Image
A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.
Jefferson Davis
Image
The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
Image
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
James Madison
Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.
James Madison
Image
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
Image
The soil is the gift of God to the living.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
Andrew Jackson
Image
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
Ulysses S. Grant
Image
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
George Mason
Image
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
James McHenry
Previous
Next