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Patriotic Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
- Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
- The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
- I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone…
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