I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — 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
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — 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
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
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, 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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