A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none… — 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
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — 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 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
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — 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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