The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may… — 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
The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — 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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