Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — 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
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — 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
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to… — 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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