Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. — 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
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to… — 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
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — 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
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our… — 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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