If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother… — 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
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be… — 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
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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