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title: "39 Force Quotes By Thomas Jefferson"
description: "39 Force quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Force sayings from other authors."
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> [Force cannot give right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/force-cannot-give-right/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/force-is-the-vital-principle-and-immediate-parent-of-despotism/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-no-king-who-with-sufficient-force-is-not-always-ready-to/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/great-innovations-should-not-be-forced-on-slender-majorities/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-spirit-of-this-country-is-totally-adverse-to-a-large-military/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-protection-of-our-citizens-the-spirit-and-honor-of-our-country/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [ Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years \[a generation\]. If it be enforced longer, it is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/every-constitution-and-every-law-naturally-expires-at-the-end-of-19/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [ \[An\] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/an-act-of-the-congress-of-the-united-states-which-assumes-powers-not/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-an-essential-attribute-of-the-jurisdiction-of-every-country-to/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/an-occasional-insurrection-will-not-weigh-against-the-inconveniences/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/whensoever-the-general-government-assumes-undelegated-powers-its-acts/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/he-who-is-permitted-by-law-to-have-no-property-of-his-own-can-with/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-a-republican-nation-whose-citizens-are-to-be-led-by-reason-and-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shift-for-herself-she-seldom-has/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/instead-of-that-liberty-which-takes-root-and-growth-in-the-progress/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/still-less-let-it-be-proposed-that-our-properties-within-our-own/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/those-characters-wherein-fear-predominates-over-hope-may-apprehend/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-only-security-of-all-is-in-a-free-press-the-force-of-public/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-a-republican-nation-whose-citizens-are-to-be-led-by-reason-and/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-we-come-to-the-moral-principles-on-which-the-government-is-to-be/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-do-verily-believe-that-if-the-principle-were-to-prevail-of-a-common/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/indeed-we-need-not-look-back-half-a-century-to-times-which-many-now/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-i-hear-another-express-an-opinion-which-is-not-mine-i-say-to/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/societies-exist-under-three-forms-sufficiently-distinguishable-1/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/but-the-chief-justice-says-there-must-be-an-ultimate-arbiter/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-nature-s-law-every-man-has-a-right-to-seize-and-retake-by-force/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/who-will-govern-the-governors-there-is-only-one-force-in-the-nation/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-god-who-gave-us-life-gave-us-liberty-at-the-same-time-the-hand-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-will-now-add-what-i-do-not-like-first-the-omission-of-a-bill-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/error-indeed-has-often-prevailed-by-the-assistance-of-power-or-force/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/this-i-hope-will-be-the-age-of-experiments-in-government-and-that/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-so-much-confidence-in-the-good-sense-of-man-and-his/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-lay-it-down-as-a-fundamental-that-laws-to-be-just-must-give-a/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-the-press-and-against-all-violations-of-the/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-constrain-the-brute-force-of-the-people-the-european-governments/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-recoil-with-horror-at-the-ferociousness-of-man-will-nations-never/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/man-was-destined-for-society-his-morality-therefore-was-to-be-formed/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-relying-for-internal-defense-on-our-militia-solely-till/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/religious-institutions-that-use-government-power-in-support-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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## Other authors on Force

## 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/)

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