Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
History, 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 JEFFERSON -
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I 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 JEFFERSON -
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I 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 JEFFERSON -
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSON






