Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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 JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON