Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. — 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
For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — 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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