I have sworn upon the altar of god. Thomas Jefferson More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson More Quotes From Thomas Jefferson Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. Thomas Jefferson democracy rights people It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson mind-your-own-business liberty men I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second. Thomas Jefferson quality integrity men Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Thomas Jefferson garden earth people The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson political government happiness One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it. Thomas Jefferson humour historical history Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson debt-free owing-a-debt money I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. Thomas Jefferson abuse political office Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. Thomas Jefferson christian faith jesus You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson army government mean It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. Thomas Jefferson freedom practice order A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson being-strong nature character On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson patriotism may trying A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. Thomas Jefferson wisdom wise men Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . Thomas Jefferson reason men religion It 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 liberty freedom men The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Thomas Jefferson godly time life My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there. Thomas Jefferson atheism religion thinking Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities. Thomas Jefferson cost taste law For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson gun military mean
