
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1799
"Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other."
--Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (Hover)
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."
-- Thomas Jefferson -- (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Smithsonian disses 'Slaveholder' Thomas Jefferson
There's a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute that describes one of America's greatest patriots in history, Thomas Jefferson, only as a slaveholder. That's it. At the same time, they talk about several human rights injustices in America's history - while not naming names. Ref. Source 9
"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 - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."
-- Thomas Jefferson - Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781