All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… Age
- I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. Age
- The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. Alien
- I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of… Anchor
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to… Any
- If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the… Any
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… Authority
- The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. Action
- The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. Civil Rights
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… Alone
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management. Citizen
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… Acquire
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject… Civil Rights
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of… Civil Rights
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare… Acquired
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… All
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who… Acre
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. All
- The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. Better
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or… Agents
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. Art
- Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the… Civil Rights
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… Action
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… Best
- Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them… Awhile