Thomas Jefferson
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word ParaphrasedCollection: Men
I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.Collection: Knows
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.Collection: Love
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peaceCollection: Peace
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.Collection: Independent
...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.Collection: Republican
Without books, I would certainly die.Collection: Book
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.Collection: Two
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.Collection: Men
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.Collection: Rights
no people can be both ignorant and free.Collection: People
Our people shall be freeCollection: People
Our bills shall not be killed.Collection: Bills
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.Collection: Crush
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.Collection: Would Be
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.Collection: Majority Rule
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.Collection: Freedom
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.Collection: Patriotic
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!Collection: Men
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.Collection: Law
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.Collection: War
He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Reading
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.Collection: Country
Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.Collection: Easter
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.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Exercise
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Character
Resisting tyranny is obeying GodCollection: Obeying God
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.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Age
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.Collection: Safety
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.Collection: Constitution
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.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Men
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.Collection: Country
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.Collection: Science
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.Collection: Country
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.Collection: Europe
When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.Collection: Art
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.Collection: Blood
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.Collection: Often Is
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.Collection: Country
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.Collection: Religious
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.Collection: Men
We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.Collection: War
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.Collection: Advice