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View from Monticello Looking Toward Charlottesville (Painting)
A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge
A little rebellion...(Quotation)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream (Engraving)
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (Silhouette)
Alexander Hamilton Bust (Sculpture)
Alexander von Humboldt (Silhouette)
American Philosophical Society
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (Quotation)
Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead (Sculpture)
Anthony Fothergill (Silhouette)
Architecture is my delight...(Quotation)
Back of State House, Philadelphia (Engraving)
Bad government results from too much government (Quotation)
Bank of Pennsylvania (Drawing)
Battle at Bunker's Hill (Engraving)
Benjamin Franklin Bust by Houdon (Sculpture)
Benjamin Smith Barton (Physiognotrace)
Bookcase for Petit-Format Books
Caesar Rodney (Physiognotrace)
Carved Stone Heads (Sculpture)
Chain Email with 10 Jefferson Quotations
Chateau des Tuilleries (Engraving)
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man (Quotation)
Christopher Columbus (Painting)
Coalbrookdale Bridge (Engraving)
Construction of the University, 1817-1826
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (Sculpture)
Craven Peyton Letter Facsimiles
Date Obolum Belisario (Engraving)
Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
Death of General Montgomery in the Attack of Quebec (Engraving)
Declaration of Independence by Binns (Engraving)
Declaration of Independence by Stone (Engraving)
Declaration of Independence by Trumbull (Engraving)
Declaration of Independence by Tyler (Engraving)
Declaration of Independence Desk
Declaration of Independence Paper
Democracy is nothing more than mob rule...
Descent from the Cross (Painting)
Dickerson, Mahlon (Physiognotrace)
Dining at the President's House
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism (Quotation)
Do you want to know who you are?...(Quotation)
Double Flowered European Columbine
Drawing Instruments with Mahogany Case
Drawing Instruments with Silver Case
Dreams of the future... (Quotation)
Dupes and Impostors (Quotation)
Editions of Jefferson's Writings
Edmond Charles Edouard Genet (Physiognotrace)
Edward Preble (Medals & Medallions)
Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
Essay in architecture (Quotation)
Establishment of the University of Virginia
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty (Quotation)
Every man has two countries - his own and France (Quotation)
Execution on the White House Lawn
Few die, none resign (Quotation)
Few die, none resign (Quotation)
Fire bell in the night (Quotation)
Friendship like wine (Quotation)
Funding the University of Virginia
Genesis of the University of Virginia
George Washington Bust by Houdon (Sculpture)
George Washington by Eccleston (Medals & Medallions)
George Washington by Joseph Wright (Engraving)
George Washington by Madame Brehan (Engraving)
Gifts from Foreign Dignitaries
Gouverneur Morris (Physiognotrace)
Government big enough to give you everything you want...(Quotation)
He who knows best... (Quotation)
Henry Dearborn (Physiognotrace)
Herodias Bearing the Head of St. John the Baptist (Painting)
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom (Quotation)
Honorary Degrees and Memberships
Hore Browse Trist (Silhouette)
I am a great believer in luck...(Quotation)
I cannot live without books (Quotation)
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery (Quotation)
I rise with the sun (Quotation)
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars (Quotation)
If a law is unjust...(Quotation)
If we are to guard against ignorance... (Quotation)
Illimitable freedom of the human mind (Quotation)
In matters of style, swim with the current...(Quotation)
Information is the currency of democracy (Quotation)
Italian Influence at Monticello
Italian Influence at Monticello
Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph
Jefferson Birthplace Memorial Park Commission
Jefferson Engraving by Sokolnicki (Engraving)
Jefferson Family Burial Places
Jefferson Manuscript Collections
Jefferson Oval Portrait by Saint-Mémin (Physiognotrace)
Jefferson Portrait by Gilbert Stuart (Painting)
Jefferson Portrait by John Trumbull (Painting)
Jefferson Portrait by Mather Brown (Painting)
Jefferson Portrait by Raphaelle Peale (Silhouette)
Jefferson Portrait by Saint-Mémin (Physiognotrace)
Jefferson's Excavation of an Indian Burial Mound
Jefferson's Plan for an Academical Village
Jesus in the Praetorium (Painting)
Jewel among the states (Quotation)
John Paul Jones Bust (Sculpture)
John Wayles Eppes (Physiognotrace)
Journey through France and Italy (1787)
Junction of Potomac and Shenandoah (Engraving)
Knowledge is power (Quotation)
Lafayette's Visit to Monticello (1824)
Languages Jefferson Spoke or Read
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...(Quotation)
Le Dejeune de Ferney (Engraving)
Lewis and Clark Plants at Monticello
Lewis and Clark Plants at Monticello
Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth (Engraving)
Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson
Little short of madness...(Quotation)
Madison Map of Virginia (1807)
Making this wine vine known to the public (Quotation)
Manual of Parliamentary Practice
Map of the United States of North America (1802)
Mapa Geografico De America Meridional (1799)
Marqués Francisco de Moncada (Engraving)
Marquis de Lafayette (Painting)
Marquis de Lafayette Bust (Sculpture)
Martha Jefferson Carr (Silhouette)
Martha Jefferson Randolph (Painting)
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Mary Randolph (Physiognotrace)
Massachusetts Inns and Taverns
Members of the Board of Trustees
Meriwether Lewis (Physiognotrace)
Museum of our soul (Quotation)
Napoleon Bonaparte (Sculpture)
Near-perfect republic (Quotation)
Nicholas Philip Trist (Silhouette)
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying... (Quotation)
No duty the executive had to perform was so trying... (Quotation)
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (Quotation)
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it (Quotation)
No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion...(Quotation)
Norborne Berkeley (Medals & Medallions)
Notable Comments on Jefferson - 19th Century
Notable Comments on Jefferson - 20th Century
Notable Comments on Jefferson - 21st Century
Notable Comments on Jefferson - Contemporary
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude... (Quotation)
Number of Letters Jefferson Wrote
Origin of the Name "Monticello"
Origins of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Ornamental Circular Card Table
Peter Hemings (1770-after 1834)
Physical Descriptions of Jefferson
Preparations for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Quotations on Albemarle County
Quotations on Birthday Celebration
Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation
Quotations on Nature and the Environment
Quotations on Slavery and Emancipation
Quotations on Smell, Perfumes, Odors, and Fragrances
Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial
Quotations on the University of Virginia
Quotations on Views from Monticello
Room in which Martha Jefferson died
Sage of Monticello (Quotation)
Saint Jerome in Meditation (Painting)
Sale of Books to the Library of Congress (1815)
Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford
Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp... (Quotation)
Son of a half-breed Indian squaw (Quotation)
Sortie made by Garrison of Gibraltar (Engraving)
Spell a word only one way (Quotation)
Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...(Quotation)
Study for Remodeling Monticello (Drawing)
Superstition of Christianity (Quotation)
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown (Painting)
Sworn upon the alter of god (Quotation)
Take things always by their smooth handle
Thaddeus Kosciuszko (Engraving)
That government is best which governs least. (Quotation)
The beauty of the Second Amendment... (Quotation)
The Bible is the source of liberty (Quotation)
The Christian god is a three headed monster
The democracy will cease to exist... (Quotation)
The end of democracy...(Quotation)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The nation was clothed with ample powers... (Quotation)
The natural progress of things... (Quotation)
The Penitent Magdalen (Painting)
The Taming of the Shrew (Engraving)
The tree of liberty... (Quotation)
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government...(Quotation)
The web of mutual obligations between generations...(Quotation)
Thomas Jefferson "Medallion Profile" (Painting)
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chronology
Thomas Jefferson Randolph (Painting)
Thomas Jefferson's Proposed Gallery for Monticello
Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Quotation)
Timeline of the Founding of the University of Virginia
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government (Quotation)
Unidentified American Indian Chief (Silhouette)
United States Capitol (Drawing)
United States Military Academy at West Point
University of Virginia by Maverick (Engraving)
Unornamented Circular Card Table
View of New Orleans (Engraving)
View of the West Front of Monticello and Garden (Painting)
Views of Niagara Falls (Engraving)
Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist
Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Visit to Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania (1819)
Wasting the labours of the people (Quotation)
We have contributed, each in the line allotted to us (Quotation)
West Front of Monticello (Drawing)
Whalebone and Ivory Walking Stick
When governments fear the people, there is liberty...(Quotation)
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Quotation)
William Burwell (Physiognotrace)
Wine is a necessary of life... (Quotation)
Without God, liberty will not last (Quotation)