We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — 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 rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — 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
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — 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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