Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] — 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 think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous… — 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
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick… — 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
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — 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 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
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to… — 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
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