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Date created: April 2010
Birthdate September 10, 1856
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Location Shadwell, Virginia
Country USA
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Job others,
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propatation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
Thomas Jefferson asked himself
Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
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.
A little rebellion is a good thing.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
The dead should not rule the living
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
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 a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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