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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
By Thomas Jefferson
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
By Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
By Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
By Thomas Jefferson
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
By Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
By Thomas Jefferson
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive
By Thomas Jefferson
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
By Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
By Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
By Thomas Jefferson
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
By Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
By Thomas Jefferson
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . .
By Thomas Jefferson
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
By Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
By Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
By Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
By Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
By Thomas Jefferson