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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
— Thomas Jefferson
That government that governs least governs best.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
— Thomas Jefferson
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
— Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government governed least is government governed best.
— Thomas Jefferson
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
— Thomas Jefferson
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of god ...
— Thomas Jefferson
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only greater [evil] than separation ... [is] living under a government of discretion.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.
— Thomas Jefferson
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
— Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
— Thomas Jefferson
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
— Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
— Thomas Jefferson
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
— Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.
— Thomas Jefferson
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
— Thomas Jefferson
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821} — John Adams
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821} — John Adams
We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
— Thomas Jefferson
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
— Thomas Jefferson
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those are governed best who are governed least.
— Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
— Thomas Jefferson
that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760.
— Robert G. Torbet
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
— Thomas Jefferson
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
— Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
— Thomas Jefferson
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the ... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
— Thomas Jefferson
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
— Thomas Jefferson
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
— Thomas Jefferson
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
— Thomas Jefferson
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
— Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
— Thomas Jefferson
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
— Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
— Thomas Jefferson
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
— Thomas Jefferson
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
— Thomas Jefferson
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
— Thomas Jefferson
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
— Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
May it be to the world ... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
— Thomas Jefferson
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
— Thomas Jefferson
An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
— Thomas Jefferson
[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
— Thomas Jefferson
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
— Thomas Jefferson
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
— Thomas Jefferson
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
— Thomas Jefferson
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
— Thomas Jefferson
The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
— Thomas Jefferson
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government
— Thomas Jefferson
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. - THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion
— Jon Meacham
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
— Thomas Jefferson
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
— Thomas Jefferson
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
— Thomas Jefferson
The 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
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
— Thomas Jefferson
Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. - Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
— Thomas Jefferson
That government which governs best, governs least.
— Thomas Jefferson
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
— Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
— Thomas Jefferson