No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — 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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