Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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  When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Liberty, Tyranny, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Future, Politics

  Tags in Government, Predict, Labor, American, Freedom

• Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Religion
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  When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Injustice, Resistance

• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Rebellion

• A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Freedom

• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics, Power, Society

  Tags in People, Think, Safe, Ultimate, Know

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics

• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Liberty, Rather, Small

• A room without books is like a life without meaning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Books

• The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principle

• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization

• Every Generation Needs a New Revolution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Inspirational

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal;that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality

• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• 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

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious Freedom, Philosophy

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Inspirational

• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Liberty, Sea

• We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal;that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights;that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality

Thomas Jefferson (237)

Birth:	13th April, 1743
Death:	4th July, 1826
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Author, Lawyer, Planter, Politician, President, Principal

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