Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it. — 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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