While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance… — 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
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and… — 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
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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