We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. — 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
“all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. — 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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