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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
![Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/771/770662/770662.webp "Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights Picture Quote #1")
![The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/771/770663/770663.webp "The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings Picture Quote #1")
![All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/771/770664/770664.webp "All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law Picture Quote #1")
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![They [Republicans] say, ‘You’re too conservative.’ Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I’m tired of some people calling me wacky Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/775/774556/774556.webp "They [Republicans] say, ‘You’re too conservative.’ Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I’m tired of some people calling me wacky Picture Quote #1")
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![The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/787/786064/786064.webp "The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion Picture Quote #1")
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![The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/798/797108/797108.webp "The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind Picture Quote #1")
![[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/801/800199/800199.webp "[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force Picture Quote #1")
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![[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/802/801601/801601.webp "[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness Picture Quote #1")
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Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
They [Republicans] say, ‘You’re too conservative.’ Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I’m tired of some people calling me wacky (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I couldn’t help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn’t one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony’s, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie’s in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, ‘let us separate (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The United States has already passed on as the world’s economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the ‘fore horse for oppression and despotism,’ after which ‘taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)