02c. 1784 ADFrance freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
03c. 1784 ADWhen in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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 that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
04c. 1784 ADEvery man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
05c. 1784 ADThat government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
06c. 1784 ADI think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
07c. 1784 ADThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
08c. 1784 ADOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
10c. 1784 ADIt is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
13c. 1784 ADThe sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
15c. 1784 ADThe execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
16c. 1784 ADI'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
17c. 1784 ADIt is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
18c. 1784 ADI never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
20c. 1784 ADI do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
21c. 1784 ADWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
22c. 1784 ADWhen we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
23c. 1784 ADIt is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
24c. 1784 ADIf I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
