The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
We never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Experience 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 JEFFERSON -
No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It 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 JEFFERSON