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We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Thomas Jefferson
Liberty

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, America, People
Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803”, p.84, Princeton University Press

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspiring, Education, Patriotic
Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Thomas Jefferson
Lying, Half, Newspapers

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Resistance, Morality
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.133

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Thomas Jefferson
Believe, Home, Government
"The Real Thomas Jefferson".

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Thomas Jefferson
Rights, Natural, Authority
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Thomas Jefferson
Liberty, Virtue
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Atheist, Wall
Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Hands, Perfect
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Reading, Years
Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.321, University of Virginia Press

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Happiness, Happy
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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
Wine, Thinking, Errors
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Thomas Jefferson
Patriotic, Hands, Twists
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.325

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson
Patriotic, Rights, Government
Letter to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson
Pain, Fear, Self Esteem

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson
Happiness, Labor Day, Secret
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.

Thomas Jefferson
Independent, Government, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Ambition, Mean
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson
Change, Errors, Safety
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Atheist, Fear
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Thomas Jefferson
Perseverance, Evil, Mind
Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Thomas Jefferson
Sheep, People, Court
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.561

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Men, Liberty
Letter to Benjamin Rush, 21 Apr. 1803