There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is… — 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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