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Thomas Jefferson. Government, People, Liberty. 139 Copy quote. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson. Law, Rebellion, Duty. 353 Copy quote. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything ...
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights. Thomas Jefferson. Freedom, Rights, Political. Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.593, Library of America. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights. Thomas Jefferson. Freedom, Rights, Political. Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.593, Library of America. I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson. God, Country, War. Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785) The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
“Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”. A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has ...
One will always lead to the other. Thomas Jefferson. Peace, War, Lying. To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008).
Thomas Jefferson. Presidential, Liberty, Libertarian. To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.'. For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised.
“Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.359 I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts.
