Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — 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
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and… — 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
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance. — 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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