Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. — 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
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,… — 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
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — 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
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have… — 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
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — 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
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and… — 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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