It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — 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, indifferent and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There… — 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
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