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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Rights, People
Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Thomas Jefferson
People, Unions, Arbiter
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

Thomas Jefferson
Reading, Writing, Years

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Thomas Jefferson
Easter, Dying, Crosses

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Men, Thinking
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.209

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.

Thomas Jefferson
Father, Character, Son
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

Thomas Jefferson
Exercise, Men, Animal
Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1099, Library of America

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Arithmetic, Interest
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.191, Penguin

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

Thomas Jefferson
Character, Animal, Civilization
Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Thomas Jefferson
Obeying God, Tyranny, Obeying

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

Thomas Jefferson
Kings, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving
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.271

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Thomas Jefferson
Age, Gone, Trials

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Thomas Jefferson
Safety, Liberty, Trials

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Thomas Jefferson
Party, Facts, Printing
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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
Men, Mind, Needs
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.114, Modern Library

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, United States, Constitution
Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Energetic, Free Government
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Thomas Jefferson
Safety, Humanity, Liberty

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Trying, Acting
In J. B. MacMaster 'History of the People of the U.S.' (1883-1913) vol. 2, ch. 13, p. 586

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

Thomas Jefferson
Eye, Witness
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.80

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Thomas Jefferson
Errors, Politics, Truth Is
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Special, Foundation
Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.192

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson
Gambling, Habit, Disposition
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

Thomas Jefferson
People, Abuse, True And False
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

Thomas Jefferson
Pain, Political Opinions, Hatred
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.112