--- title: "4 Censorship Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "4 Censorship quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Censorship sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over_153903.jpg" --- > [I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over-the-mind-of-man/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over_153903.jpg) > [Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/are-we-to-have-a-censor-whose-imprimatur-shall-say-what-books-may-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1dd/thomas-jefferson-43_believe_are-we-to-have-a-censor-whose-imprimatur_2040517.jpg) > [It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-an-insult-to-our-citizens-to-question-whether-they-are-rational/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/thomas-jefferson-43_against-religion_it-is-an-insult-to-our-citizens-to-quest_2263477.jpg) > [Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/whose-foot-is-to-be-the-measure-to-which-ours-are-all-to-be-cut-or/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/thomas-jefferson-43_censorship_whose-foot-is-to-be-the-measure-to-which_2505163.jpg) ## Other authors on Censorship - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-salman-rushdie-82434.jpg) Salman Rushdie 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/salman-rushdie/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-judy-blume-54057.jpg) Judy Blume 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/judy-blume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rebecca-mackinnon-77802.jpg) Rebecca MacKinnon 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/rebecca-mackinnon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-george-bernard-shaw-68.jpg) George Bernard Shaw 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/george-bernard-shaw/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-g-r-reader-31875.jpg) G.R. Reader 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/g-r-reader/) - [Oliver Markus Malloy 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/oliver-markus-malloy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-o-douglas-95752.jpg) William O. Douglas 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/william-o-douglas/) - [Mark Twain 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julian-assange-54221.jpg) Julian Assange 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/julian-assange/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/suzy-kassem/) ## 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/censorship/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Censorship Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over-the-mind-of-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over_153903.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over_153903.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-am-opposed-to-any-form-of-tyranny-over_153903.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? 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