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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.239

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Equality, Rights

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Heart, Godly

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Liberty, Cornerstones

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Government, Political
Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.82

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Men
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.238, Cosimo, Inc.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Government, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Government, Liberty

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Thinking
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.379

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

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Men, Thinking
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Law
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.591

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Yield
Thomas Jefferson (2015). “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Lulu.com

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Eye, Men
Letter to Roger C.Weightman, 24 June 1826.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Rights, Law
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.118

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson
Book, 4th Of July, Men
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Media, Government
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Parent
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.110, Rowman & Littlefield

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Sea, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Government
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1803-1807”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

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

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Heaven, Exclusion

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Independent, Self
Letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson
4th Of July, Government, Giving
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional