The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — 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
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that… — 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
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy. — 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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