The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not… — 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
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to… — 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
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated… — 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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