History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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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
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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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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.