Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
- Thomas Jefferson
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
- Thomas Jefferson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
- Thomas Jefferson
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
- Thomas Jefferson
The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
- Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
How much does free cost?
- Thomas Jefferson