A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — 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
That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would 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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