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In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won’t forget the basic principles of freedom (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Our ancestors... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 happiness can be enjoyed by society (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)