A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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Thomas Jefferson
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A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
benjamin franklin,
Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments (Including Images of Original
Democracy in America
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph
Notes on the State of Virginia
The Declaration of Independence
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
The Quotable Jefferson
The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
One man with courage is a majority.