“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson

“No people who are ignorant can be truly free.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...”

Thomas Jefferson

“All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.”

Thomas Jefferson

“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 in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Take things always by their smooth handle.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

Thomas Jefferson

“A little rebellion is good now and then.” 

Thomas Jefferson

“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.” 

Thomas Jefferson

“The earth belongs always to the living generations.”

Thomas Jefferson


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