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
When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or… — 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
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a… — 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
The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — 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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