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title: "50 Natural Quotes By Thomas Jefferson"
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> [Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/questions-of-natural-right-are-triable-by-their-conformity-with-the/)

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> [ Natural rights \[are\] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/natural-rights-are-the-objects-for-the-protection-of-which-society-is/)

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> [Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-rulers-can-have-authority-over-such-natural-rights-only-as-we/)

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> [Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/everyone-has-a-natural-right-to-choose-that-vocation-in-life-which-he/)

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> [ Some other natural rights... \[have\] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/some-other-natural-rights-have-not-yet-entered-into-any-declaration/)

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> [No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/no-man-has-a-natural-right-to-commit-aggression-on-the-equal-rights/)

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> [Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/every-man-is-under-the-natural-duty-of-contributing-to-the/)

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> [ I... \[am\] convinced \[man\] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-convinced-man-has-no-natural-right-in-opposition-to-his-social/)

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> [I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-shall-see-with-sincere-satisfaction-the-progress-of-those/)

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> [what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/what-are-the-objects-of-an-useful-american-education-classical/)

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> [Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/whenever-there-are-in-any-country-uncultivated-lands-and-unemployed/)

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> [Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/every-man-and-every-body-of-men-on-earth-possesses-the-right-of-self/)

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> [in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-the-spring-he-will-attend-your-botanical-course-his-natural-turn/)

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> [Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/reason-and-free-inquiry-are-the-only-effectual-agents-against-error-2/)

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> [we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-defer-therefore-till-this-time-twelve-month-to-avail-ourselves-of/)

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> [ The rights \[to religious freedom\] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-rights-to-religious-freedom-are-of-the-natural-rights-of-mankind/)

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> [I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-tremble-for-my-country-when-i-reflect-that-god-is-just-that-his-2/)

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> [The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-most-effectual-means-of-preventing-the-perversion-of-power-into/)

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> [Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/reason-and-free-inquiry-are-the-only-effective-agents-against-error/)

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> [The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-proscribing-any-citizen-as-unworthy-the-public-confidence-by/)

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> [ It \[appears\] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-appears-that-however-certain-forms-of-government-are-better/)

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> [The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-earth-belongs-to-the-living-no-man-can-by-natural-right-oblige/)

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> [It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-a-moot-question-whether-the-origin-of-any-kind-of-property-is/)

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> [The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-god-who-gave-us-life-gave-us-liberty-at-the-same-time-the-hand-of/)

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> [The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-natural-cause-of-the-human-mind-is-certainly-from-credulity-to/)

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> [ All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in \[their\] exercise by law. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/all-natural-rights-may-be-abridged-or-modified-in-their-exercise-by/)

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> [There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-a-natural-aristocracy-among-men-the-grounds-of-this-are/)

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> [Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/laws-abridging-the-natural-right-of-the-citizen-should-be-restrained/)

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> [The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-idea-is-quite-unfounded-that-on-entering-into-society-we-give-up/)

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> [ \[O\]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/o-ur-rules-can-have-authority-over-such-natural-rights-only-as-we/)

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> [Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/legislators-invent-too-many-devices-for-subdividing-property-only/)

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> [I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-myself-an-empiric-in-natural-philosophy-suffering-my-faith-to-go/)

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> [It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-not-the-policy-of-the-government-in-america-to-give-aid-to/)

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> [The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-foundation-on-which-our-government-is-built-is-the-natural/)

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> [Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/old-heads-as-well-as-young-may-sometimes-be-charged-with-ignorance/)

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> [The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-same-political-parties-which-now-agitiate-the-us-have-existed/)

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> [A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-right-to-property-is-founded-in-our-natural-wants-in-the-means-with/)

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> [In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-truth-politeness-is-artificial-good-humor-it-covers-the-natural-2/)

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> [I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-considered-the-british-as-our-natural-enemies-and-as-the-only/)

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> [Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-legislators-are-not-sufficiently-apprized-of-the-rightful-limits/)

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## Other authors on Natural

## More by Thomas Jefferson

> [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/)

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> [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/)

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> [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/)

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> [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/)

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> [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/)

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> [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/)

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> [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/)

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> [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/)

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> [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/)

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> [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/)

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> [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/)

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> [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/)

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> [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/)

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> [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/)

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> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/)

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                        "text": "what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.",
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