I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical… — 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
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
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
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
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — 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 not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — 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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