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)