In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear… — 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