Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes Click here for Thomas Jefferson books American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." "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." "Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor." "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.'" "It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back." "Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say." "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." "I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate." "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." "I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law." "I know 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 wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." "No more good must be attempted than the public can bear." "I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country." "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." "The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric." "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” "When a man assumes a public trust, he should
consider himself as public property."
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