The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none… — 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
I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would 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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