Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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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
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.