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“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”
“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.”
“The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.”
Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.”
Source: Correspondence
“Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803
Source: The Essential Jefferson
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
“What is it men cannot be made to believe!”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
Source: The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 And 1805
Source: Correspondence
“Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.”
Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont