Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion… — 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
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star… — 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
I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. — 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 strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — 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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