The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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 JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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 JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON