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
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — 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
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.... — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends. — 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
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — 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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