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Individual Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no…
- An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- 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…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
- Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
- With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
- Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no…
- The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
- It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his…
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate…
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
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