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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #continue #european #interferences #objects

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#came #day #environmental #father #gut

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. ↗

— Francis Jeffrey

#his #long #man #may #nothing

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#earth #god #necessary #representation #should

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#am #continuing #expressing #feel #french

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#expression #french #i #i am #writer

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#consultation #country #different #hold #lead