American liberty Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American liberty Bearing arms Civil rights Death Forerunners Freedom Freedom and liberty Inspirational Lethargy Liberty Liberty tree Patriotism Right to bear arms
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.” — James Madison 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 of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
[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
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Our American liberty defines our great nation. Let us each learn and do all we can to preserve it. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Bloomberg's money and media access are a serious danger to American liberty and we must take him head on. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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