We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Friendship is precious, but friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with… — 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 must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of… — THOMAS JEFFERSON Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be… — 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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