not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — 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
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each… — 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
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — 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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