Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold. — 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
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — 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
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