Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a… — 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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