I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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