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Our wish is that...[there be] ...

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

To take from one because it is...

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

By nature's law, every man has...

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.

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It is a moot question whether ...

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social l

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Private enterprise manages so ...

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The merchants will manage [com...

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I am... for freedom of the pre...

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

The art of printing secures us...

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Considering the great importan...

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No experiment can be more inte...

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

This formidable censor of the ...

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Our citizens may be deceived f...

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

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The press is impotent when it ...

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

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Religion is a subject on which...

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

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The Christian religion, when d...

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

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Our particular principles of r...

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

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It is time enough, for the rig...

It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

No government can be maintaine...

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

Every man is under the natural...

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

I... [am] convinced [man] has ...

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Thomas Jefferson 2120 quotes

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