The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Experience 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 JEFFERSON