With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect… — 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
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — 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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