Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Liberty Quotes

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

This is the fourth?

This is the fourth?

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of...

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of...

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure...

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang...

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang...

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled...

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled...

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right...

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...