Thomas Jefferson Individual Quotations

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.