Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

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If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their...

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one...

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government....

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit...

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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of...

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The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can...

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

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A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

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A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes...

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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

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If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

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