Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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

    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)