Thomas Jefferson ( 10 of 137 )
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he read more
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and read more
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the read more
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more
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.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of read more
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.
Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which read more
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat read more
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
