Favorite Jefferson Quotes

From the Writings of Thomas Jefferson

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

These quotations from the writings of Thomas Jefferson were selected from the much larger collection located at Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government. They are the most popular of the quotations from Jefferson's writings, and are especially useful for writing and speaking. Each of the six files are in preformatted text, which means they can be easily copied with the "File: Save as..." command and the quotes themselves will be clean and not surrounded by gobbledygook (i.e., html codes). After downloading, click on "Back" to return to this page. You can view each file with an ASCII text editor. In Windows, the files should be saved in a .txt file. Large .txt files can easily be viewed in Write without conversion.

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Favorite Jefferson Quotes

Part 1 - Foundations (23 Kbytes)

Part 2 - Republican Principles (16 Kbytes)

Part 3 - Republican Principles (cont'd) (20 Kbytes)

Part 4 - Republican Government (29 Kbytes)

Part 5 - Republican Policy (14 Kbytes)

Part 6 - Civil Rights & The Prospects for Democracy (21 Kbytes)

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