A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of… — 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
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with… — 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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