Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson