Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — 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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