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A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Thomas Jefferson
Blessing, Government, Liberty

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Thomas Jefferson
Nature, Educational, Men

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Science, Firsts
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1903). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.

Thomas Jefferson
Integrity, Views, Doubt
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.353

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson
Rights, Law, People
Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Thomas Jefferson
Party, Political, Heaven
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.585

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Thomas Jefferson
Doctors, Virginia, Speak

The merchant has no country .

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Southern, Merchants

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Thomas Jefferson
Equality, Two, Justice
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Thomas Jefferson
Book, Reading, Bedtime
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

Thomas Jefferson
Exercise, Men, Mind

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Thomas Jefferson
Heart, Feet

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson
People, Choices, President
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.277, Penguin

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

Thomas Jefferson
Jesus, Father, Believe

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Errors, Giving

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

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

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Thomas Jefferson
Honesty, Rights, Play
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

Thomas Jefferson
Work, Men, Labor
Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

Thomas Jefferson
Life, Morning, Pursuit Of Happiness
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.95

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

Thomas Jefferson
Strong, Men, Thieves
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.482, Cambridge University Press

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Thomas Jefferson
Daughter, Firsts, Born
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson
Names, Wish, Goes On
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.442

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Thomas Jefferson
Power, Stronger, Favors
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Thomas Jefferson
People, May

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

Thomas Jefferson
Wise, Men, Emulation
Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.532