Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the general government. — 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
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