When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and… — 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 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
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
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others… — 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 of most of the states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — 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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