Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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• Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
• Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
• [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
• The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The…
• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of…
• The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
• If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
• We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
• I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
• It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
• Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
• Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
• All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief…
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
• When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
• Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
• Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
• No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
• Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…

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