The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.” — 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
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear… — 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
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — 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
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
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
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 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
[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
“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
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
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
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my… — 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
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. — 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
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
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. — 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
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — 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
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
[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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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
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