Other TJ Quotes
“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson
Other TJ Quotes
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
Other TJ Quotes
America in 2020, What will we have? Does America-in-2020 include all of TJ’s Quotes?
