Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — 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 firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that… — 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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