The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the… — 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
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and… — 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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