Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

no people can be both ignorant and free.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Here 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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

How much does free cost?