It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — 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
Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — 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
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
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — 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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