An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — 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
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. — 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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