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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.


Thomas Jefferson

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THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob...
THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON