Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of… — 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
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — 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
My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken… — 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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