When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness… — 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
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
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — 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
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest… — 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
All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and… — 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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