The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — 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 of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
[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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