01c. 1784 ADIn 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.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
03c. 1784 ADWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
04c. 1784 ADThe republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
05c. 1784 ADIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
07c. 1784 ADRightful 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.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
08c. 1784 ADIn every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
09c. 1784 ADThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
10c. 1784 ADIt is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
11c. 1784 ADHere 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.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
12c. 1784 ADLeave 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.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
13c. 1784 ADI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
14c. 1784 ADIt is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
15c. 1784 ADDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
16c. 1784 ADThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
17c. 1784 ADExperience 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.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
19c. 1784 ADFor a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
20c. 1784 ADI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
21c. 1784 ADHistory, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
22c. 1784 ADOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
