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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Passion, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture at New Orleans”, p.401

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Order, People
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.149

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Clouds, Light
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.218

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson
Truth, Honesty, Fear
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

Thomas Jefferson
Strong, Simplicity, Way

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

Thomas Jefferson
Political, Experience, Ordinary
Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.252

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Milk, Tranquility
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.155, Rowman & Littlefield

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

Thomas Jefferson
Sheep, Government, Care
Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.97

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

Thomas Jefferson
Humor, Practice, All Time
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.258, Rowman & Littlefield

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Believe, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

Thomas Jefferson
Honesty, Integrity, Believe
Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.541

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Law, Sick
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Christianity, Corruption
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Thomas Jefferson
Bible, Husband, Father

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Thomas Jefferson
Confidence, Common Sense, Mankind
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Thomas Jefferson
Funny, Life, Good Morning

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Thomas Jefferson
Abuse, Investing, Paper
Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson
Ambition, Government, Design
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Believe, Men

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy, Greek, Religion
"The Real Thomas Jefferson".

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart
Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Garden, Young
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Attachment, Liberty, Earth
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Tribes, American Indian
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.177