We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson More Quotes From 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. Thomas Jefferson coffee giving america letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. Thomas Jefferson educational lasts letters I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees. Thomas Jefferson degrees educational europe I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man. Thomas Jefferson educational light men This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. Thomas Jefferson honesty war peace Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. Thomas Jefferson independent garden country I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. Thomas Jefferson garden government thinking The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. Thomas Jefferson faith-religion religious blood To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries. Thomas Jefferson education country lying It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty. Thomas Jefferson law exercise thinking The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods. Thomas Jefferson rights exercise people To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other. Thomas Jefferson christian believe jesus Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. Thomas Jefferson hours lasts care None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army Thomas Jefferson gun-rights standing army Question with boldness even the existence of a god. Thomas Jefferson faith-religion atheist religious Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. Thomas Jefferson left wells enough Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making. Thomas Jefferson whiskey office claims Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. Thomas Jefferson hysterical ennui body We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong. Thomas Jefferson majority democracy waiting For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum. Thomas Jefferson judging heaven looks
