Quotes Thomas Jefferson - page 3
Find dozens of Thomas Jefferson with images to copy and share.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
You may also like
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.
You may also like
![To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.](/fotos/7c/7cecfe41e1394109d7b8620ca3926166.webp)
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
