I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. — 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
All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!. — 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
He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — 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
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is… — 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
Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and… — 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
We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every… — 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
![“When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/641/thomas-jefferson-43_christian_when-in-short-we-shall-have-unlearned-ev_1786682.jpg)
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![“[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/401/thomas-jefferson-43_branches_states-and-the-federal-government-are-co_2619.jpg)
![“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00c/thomas-jefferson-43_change_single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-t_5515.jpg)
![“Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible...” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebe/thomas-jefferson-43_difficult_though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one_9828.jpg)
