Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“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,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
