Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 4, 2010
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
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
- Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
- Thomas Jefferson
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
- Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
- Thomas Jefferson
Millions of innocent men, women and , since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson
