Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief. Thomas Jefferson More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson More Quotes From Thomas Jefferson Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. Thomas Jefferson taxationterritoryearth If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. Thomas Jefferson public-opinionpracticelaw A strong body makes the mind strong. Thomas Jefferson gunstrongexercise 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 slaverylibertygovernment But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family. Thomas Jefferson hopefulcolorrights We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. Thomas Jefferson governmentcaringrunning The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. Thomas Jefferson workoutwisdomchildren No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson second-amendmentarmsuse Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. Thomas Jefferson drinkcoffeeworld We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... 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. Thomas Jefferson gratitudeagencyfall The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. Thomas Jefferson teachingmenjesus Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you. Thomas Jefferson neglecthoursmusic It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson government-debtwisdomwar For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal. Thomas Jefferson environmentalnaturelinks I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson faith-religionreligiousmen Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. Thomas Jefferson povertyhistoricalpaper Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson housewarpeace To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Thomas Jefferson media-controlprinciplessound I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson painambitionmen Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. Thomas Jefferson politicspoliticallove
