My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity… — 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
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — 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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