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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
By Thomas Jefferson
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
By Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
By Thomas Jefferson
I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
By Thomas Jefferson
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
By Thomas Jefferson
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
By Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].
By Thomas Jefferson
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
By Thomas Jefferson
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me
By Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
By Thomas Jefferson
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?
By Thomas Jefferson
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
By Thomas Jefferson
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
By Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
By Thomas Jefferson