It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter — 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
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own… — 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
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not. — 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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