We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[My] pillar of support through life… I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the]… — 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 influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be… — 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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