Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — 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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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