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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The objects of this primary education... would be... to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 its constitution (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 to their control at short periods (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
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 for light (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light and liberty go together (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment and every enmity (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I am sure that in estimating every man’s value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I don’t want them to kill no hog... I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men (Thomas Jefferson Quotes)