Humane Letters Degree

Famous quotes containing the words humane, letters and/or degree:

“If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict
themselves to sack.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 1:22.

King Ahasuerus, after his Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.

“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)