The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles… — 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
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the… — 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
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not… — 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
“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
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions. — 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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