 He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Thomas Jefferson
United States Declaration of Independence
There is no truth on earth that I fear to be known.
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Herbert, The White Plague
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
Thomas Jefferson
I swear eternal hate to the enemies of mind
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErukvYVPOI
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams, 11 April 1823
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html
Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
Thomas Jefferson
Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
The best government is self-government.
Thomas Jefferson
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas Jefferson
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Thomas Jefferson
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to F. W. Gilmer, 1816
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Thomas Jefferson
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
1781
The justest dispositions possible in ourselves, will not secure us against it [war]. It would be necessary that all other nations were just also. Justice indeed, on our part, will save us from those wars which would have been produced by a contrary disposition. But how can we prevent those produced by the wrongs of other nations? By putting ourselves in a condition to punish them. Weakness provokes insult and injury, while a condition to punish often prevents them.
Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Jefferson.html
Our wish is that . . . [there may be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of this fathers.
Thomas Jefferson
...the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Jefferson.html
Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Wilson Cary Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
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