When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 133
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
Information is the currency of democracy. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 2
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
We never repent of having eaten too little. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0