No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — 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
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — 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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