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The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 them separately (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 restrain him (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 we are obliged to trust with power (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I have lived temperately... I double the doctor’s recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, and to the public (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
In the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity and character (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)