Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious… — 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
“Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — 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
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — 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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