Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The constitution of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect… — 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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