I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood… — 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
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of… — 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
When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my… — 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
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
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of… — THOMAS JEFFERSON Copy Share Image
If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[My] pillar of support through life… I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the… — 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
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change… — 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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