Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — 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 elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. — 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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