Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — 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
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort… — 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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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