Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every… — 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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