...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — 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
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — 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