01c. 1784 ADA wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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 earned.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
02c. 1784 ADA Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
03c. 1784 ADThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
04c. 1784 ADWhenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
05c. 1784 ADWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
06c. 1784 ADIf we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
07c. 1784 ADThat government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
08c. 1784 ADEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
09c. 1784 ADConquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
11c. 1784 ADMoney, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
12c. 1784 ADSo confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
13c. 1784 ADPeace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
14c. 1784 ADThere is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
15c. 1784 ADWhen angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
16c. 1784 ADIt behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
17c. 1784 ADI 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 / quote ↗
