When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or… — 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
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and… — 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
If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats… — 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
![“It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3da/thomas-jefferson-43_congress_it-would-not-be-for-the-public-good-to-h_869547.jpg)
![“But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d33/thomas-jefferson-43_aloof_but-you-may-ask-if-the-two-departments-i_1638614.jpg)
![“Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00d/thomas-jefferson-43_country_where-the-principle-of-difference-betwee_1164575.jpg)
