The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — 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
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never before knew the full value of trees…What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion… — 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
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. — 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
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be… — 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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