My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that.. of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — 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
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. — 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
“Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. — 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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