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Thomas Jefferson Quotes Page 2Page: 1 2 When you dig into the depths of these Thomas Jefferson quotes you can almost hear him (in Virginia) speaking at the Continental Congress during the beginning of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's quotes will leave an impression on most readers. When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson's quotes are among some of my favorite quotations. Thomas Jefferson's quotes can transform one's thinking. Page: 1 2 Home Inspirational-Motivational-Success-Quotes
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