The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. — 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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