Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — 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
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — 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
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — 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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