Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)