Thomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

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

“I know of 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.”

“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”

“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”

“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”