I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — 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 fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This… — 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
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — 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
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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