--- title: "13 Bears Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "13 Bears quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Bears sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-a_1964718.jpg" --- > [Free men do not ask permission to bear arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-arms/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-a_1964718.jpg) > [ The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt \[the abolition of slavery\], or worse will follow. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear-and-adopt-the-abolition-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/thomas-jefferson-43_abolition_the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear_2891316.jpg) > [The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-strongest-reason-for-the-people-to-retain-the-right-to-keep-and/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb1/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_the-strongest-reason-for-the-people-to-r_951173.jpg) > [Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/laws-that-forbid-the-carrying-of-arms-disarm-only-those-who-are-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/thomas-jefferson-43_2-amendment_laws-that-forbid-the-carrying-of-arms-di_158441.jpg) > [Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/wisdom-i-know-is-social-she-seeks-her-fellows-but-beauty-is-jealous/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04f/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_wisdom-i-know-is-social-she-seeks-her-fe_700114.jpg) > [We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-see-the-wisdom-of-solon-s-remark-that-no-more-good-must-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/632/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_we-see-the-wisdom-of-solon-s-remark-that_1438065.jpg) > [Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/those-who-bear-equally-the-burthens-of-government-should-equally/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_those-who-bear-equally-the-burthens-of-g_2255184.jpg) > [We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-are-firmly-convinced-and-we-act-on-that-conviction-that-with/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/thomas-jefferson-43_armament_we-are-firmly-convinced-and-we-act-on-th_301105.jpg) > [The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-patriot-like-the-christian-must-learn-to-bear-revilings-and/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_the-patriot-like-the-christian-must-lear_2883973.jpg) > [Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/yet-the-hour-of-emancipation-is-advancing-this-enterprise-is-for-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85e/thomas-jefferson-43_advancing_yet-the-hour-of-emancipation-is-advancin_1091648.jpg) > [ It is a \[disputed\] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie \[gold and silver coin\], is a good or… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-a-disputed-question-whether-the-circulation-of-paper-rather/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_it-is-a-disputed-question-whether-the-ci_2519938.jpg) > [Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/reading-reflection-and-time-have-convinced-me-that-the-interests-of-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/thomas-jefferson-43_agree_reading-reflection-and-time-have-convinc_2605680.jpg) > [The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-value-of-science-to-a-republican-people-the-security-it-gives-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/350/thomas-jefferson-43_bears_the-value-of-science-to-a-republican-peo_1200532.jpg) ## Other authors on Bears - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 57 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marcus-aurelius-63282.jpg) Marcus Aurelius 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/marcus-aurelius/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [Aristotle 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/swami-vivekananda/) - [Mark Twain 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alexander-pope-11021.jpg) Alexander Pope 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/alexander-pope/) ## More by Thomas Jefferson > [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "13 Bears Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Free men do not ask permission to bear arms", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-arms/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-a_1964718.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-a_1964718.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_free-men-do-not-ask-permission-to-bear-a_1964718.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Free men do not ask permission to bear arms” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear-and-adopt-the-abolition-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/thomas-jefferson-43_abolition_the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear_2891316.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/thomas-jefferson-43_abolition_the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear_2891316.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/thomas-jefferson-43_abolition_the-day-is-not-distant-when-we-must-bear_2891316.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. 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It requires, indeed, self-command. 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