“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain: and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Friendship is precious, but friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — 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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