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
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
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
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
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
[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
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than… — 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
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. — 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
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
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be! — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not… — 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
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason… — 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
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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