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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Thomas Jefferson
Art, Liberty, Citizens
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.299, Rowman & Littlefield

Light and liberty go together.

Thomas Jefferson
Light, Liberty, Together
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.119, Modern Library

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Thomas Jefferson
Promise, President, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.517

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.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Grace, Liberty
Letter to Roger C.Weightman, 24 June 1826.

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

Thomas Jefferson
Safety, Liberty, Trials

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

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Thomas Jefferson
Advice, Liberty, Want
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.402

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

Thomas Jefferson
Blessing, Government, Liberty

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Struggle, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (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 of New Orleans”, p.138

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

Thomas Jefferson
Thinking, President, Liberty
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.501

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson
Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Liberty

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Liberty, Noble
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.273, Cambridge University Press

The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.

Thomas Jefferson
Mean, Rights, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Bishop, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1971). “Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Men, Liberty, Pedestal
Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.

From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Religious, Liberty, Arise

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
People, President, Liberty

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Thomas Jefferson
Blood, Issues, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Thomas Jefferson
Believe, Light, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

Thomas Jefferson
Sacrifice, Attachment, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.234, Rowman & Littlefield

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

Thomas Jefferson
Kings, Rights, Liberty
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.416

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

Thomas Jefferson
Believe, Liberty, Principles
Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.152

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Thomas Jefferson
Feelings, Religion, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Miracle, Liberty
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.115, Penguin

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

Thomas Jefferson
Exercise, Liberty, Comfort
Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Thomas Jefferson
Religion, Liberty, Politics