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title: "43 Hands Quotes By Thomas Jefferson"
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> [Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/take-painsto-write-a-neat-round-plain-hand-and-you-will-find-it-a/)

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> [I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-much-confidence-that-we-shall-proceed-successfully-for-ages-to/)

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> [Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/men-of-high-learning-and-abilities-are-few-in-every-country-and-by/)

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> [I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-not-an-advocate-for-frequent-changes-in-laws-and-constitutions-2/)

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> [Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/would-it-not-be-better-to-simplify-the-system-of-taxation-rather-than/)

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> [The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-concentrating-of-powers-in-the-same-hands-is-precisely-the/)

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> [The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-constitution-has-erected-no-such-single-tribunal-knowing-that-to/)

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> [I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-the-consolation-of-having-added-nothing-to-my-private-fortune/)

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> [Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/laws-and-institutions-must-go-hand-in-hand-with-the-progress-of-the-2/)

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> [Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/having-labored-faithfully-in-establishing-the-right-of-self/)

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> [Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/man-once-surrendering-his-reason-has-no-remaining-guard-against/)

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> [Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/still-less-let-it-be-proposed-that-our-properties-within-our-own/)

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> [Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-public-credit-is-good-but-the-abundance-of-paper-has-produced-a/)

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> [By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-nature-s-law-every-man-has-a-right-to-seize-and-retake-by-force/)

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> [We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and-the-world-declare-that/)

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> [It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-an-axiom-in-my-mind-that-our-liberty-can-never-be-safe-but-in/)

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> [Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/of-the-various-executive-abilities-no-one-excited-more-anxious/)

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> [To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-compel-a-man-to-furnish-contributions-of-money-for-the-propagation-2/)

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> [The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-god-who-gave-us-life-gave-us-liberty-at-the-same-time-the-hand-of/)

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> [I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-not-an-advocate-for-frequent-changes-in-laws-and-constitutions/)

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> [SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/sir-your-letter-of-february-the-18th-came-to-hand-on-the-1st-instant/)

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> [Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/such-is-the-moral-construction-of-the-world-that-no-national-crime/)

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> [Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/education-is-here-placed-among-the-articles-of-public-care-not-that/)

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> [Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/men-by-their-constitutions-are-naturally-divided-into-two-parties-1/)

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> [The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, \[and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-president-is-bound-to-stop-at-the-limits-prescribed-by-our/)

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> [The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-end-of-democracy-and-the-defeat-of-the-american-revolution-will/)

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> [The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-constitution-is-a-mere-thing-of-wax-in-the-hands-of-the-judiciary/)

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> [Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/never-throw-off-the-best-affections-of-nature-in-the-moment-when-they/)

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> [Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/legislators-invent-too-many-devices-for-subdividing-property-only/)

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> [I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-shall-need-too-the-favor-of-that-being-in-whose-hands-we-are-who-2/)

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> [What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/what-an-augmentation-of-the-field-for-jobbing-speculating-plundering/)

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> [Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/shake-hands-with-pain-give-greeting-unto-grief-those-angels-in/)

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> [That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/that-the-enthusiasm-which-characterizes-youth-should-lift-its/)

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> [I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-shall-need-too-the-favor-of-that-being-in-whose-hands-we-are-who/)

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> [I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-hold-it-certain-that-to-open-the-doors-of-truth-and-to-fortify-the/)

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> [The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-late-rebellion-in-massachusetts-has-given-more-alarm-than-i-think/)

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> [The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-general-desire-of-men-to-live-by-their-heads-rather-than-their/)

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> [Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/instead-of-an-aristocracy-of-wealth-of-more-harm-and-danger-than/)

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> [When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-representative-body-have-lost-the-confidence-of-their/)

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> [ Specie \[gold and silver coin\] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/specie-gold-and-silver-coin-is-the-most-perfect-medium-because-it/)

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## Other authors on Hands

## More by Thomas Jefferson

> [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/)

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> [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/)

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> [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/)

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> [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/)

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> [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/)

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> [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/)

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> [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/)

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> [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/)

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> [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/)

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> [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/)

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> [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/)

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> [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/)

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> [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/)

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> [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

> [“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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