Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Liberty - Page 2

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Liberty

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Liberty, Virtue

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.

Thomas Jefferson

Independent, Government, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Freedom, Men, Liberty

Letter to Benjamin Rush, 21 Apr. 1803

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Thomas Jefferson

Agriculture, Liberty, Four

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

War, Liberty, Alliances

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.425

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

Thomas Jefferson

Eye, Government, Liberty

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Inalienable Rights, Rich

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Motivational, Men, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.140, BookBaby

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism, Liberty, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.66, Courier Corporation

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

Life And Love, Government, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, People, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson

Education, People, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson (2017). “LETTERS”, p.709, 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

Thomas Jefferson

Mean, Liberty, May

Thomas Jefferson (1856). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.548

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Liberty, Opinion

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.206, Penguin

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Command

Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Constitution

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson

4th Of July, Sea, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Citizens, Sacred

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Sea, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.416, Cambridge University Press

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Flames, Liberty, Receiving

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.431, Penguin

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Liberty, May

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Attachment, Liberty, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Thinking, Perfect, Liberty

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.264

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Freedom Of The Press, Depends

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