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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty,

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Thomas Jefferson
Moving, 4th Of July, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.92

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Perfect, Mind
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Mean, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.360

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Struggle, Sacrifice
Thomas Jefferson's letter to George Rogers Clark, founders.archives.gov. December 25, 1780.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Rights, People

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Thomas Jefferson
Moral, Instinct, Duty
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.429, Penguin

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Thomas Jefferson
Church, Prejudice, Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson
Rights, Government, Punishment
Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast, delicious varieties for our tables, refreshments from our orchards, the adornments of our flower-borders, shade and perfume of our groves, materials for our buildings, or medicaments for our bodies.

Thomas Jefferson
Flower, Men, Body
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (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.390

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Thomas Jefferson
Dream, School, Opportunity

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Thomas Jefferson
Insanity, Understanding, Lapses

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Thomas Jefferson
Names, Differences, Principles
Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.

Thomas Jefferson
Fashion, Mind, Principles
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Principles, Politics
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson
Cynical, Mind, Causes
"Symposium On Epic Of Thomas Jefferson:Embargo Act Of 1807 & The Quest For Limited Government Over Big Government". Book by Festus Ogunbitan (p. 1498), April 11, 2014.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson
Life, Powerful, Government
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Rights, Morality
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson
Real, Humor, Want
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.407, Penguin

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson
Strength, Respect, Patriotic
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.17

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Thomas Jefferson
Strong, Yoga, Mind
Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 27 August (1786)

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

Thomas Jefferson
Morning, Entrepreneur, Sunrise
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.321

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson
Motivational, Fitness, Health
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Thomas Jefferson
Essentials, Fixing, Revolution
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Thomas Jefferson
Work, Troublesome
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.402

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson
Happiness, Happy, Pain