Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — 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
Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that.. of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will… — 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
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be! — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. — 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — 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 unalienable Rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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