No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the… — 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
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by… — 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
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a… — 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
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — 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
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
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
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
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — 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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