Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSON