If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors… — 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/808/thomas-jefferson-43_body_if-god-has-made-it-a-law-in-the-nature-o_2482448.jpg)
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