The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — 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
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — 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 virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — 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
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — 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 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
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its… — 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
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
Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be… — 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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