I 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 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 JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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 JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
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 JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON