Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 27 Dec. 1796 [Quote]
there is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature & fortune have measured to him.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Madame d’Enville, 2 Apr. 1790 [Quote]
a good citizen should take his stand where the public authority marshals him.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
justice is the fundamental law of society.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, enclosed in Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
the most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal & impartial justice to all it’s citizens.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Case of Edward Stevens, enclosed in Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 12 June 1804 [Quote]
the laws of the land are the inheritance & the right of every man, before whatever tribunal he is brought.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Arnoux, 19 July 1789 [Quote]
the execution of the laws is more important than the making them.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 18 Sept. 1787 [Quote]
one who loves the arts, must be well disposed to those who practice them.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 16 Sept. 1787 [Quote]
in architecture, painting, sculpture, I found much amusement.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Draft Autobiography, 21 July 1821 [Quote]
so ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?—certainly in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.—which would be your second choice?—France.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Draft Autobiography, 6 Jan.–21 July 1821 [Quote]
so ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?—certainly in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.—which would be your second choice?—France.
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