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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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