Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Freedom Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. -Thomas Jefferson Quotes- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness… Preach… a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for education the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [of misgovernment]. -Thomas Jefferson Quotes- It is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free. I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. -Thomas Jefferson Quotes- What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:10:03 +0000
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