It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSON