Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
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 JEFFERSONI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON