If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and… — 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
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — 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
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which… — 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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