Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonTags: experience inequality europe cannibalism
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas JeffersonAll, 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.
Thomas JeffersonDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas JeffersonTags: discipline
Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
Thomas Jeffersonnever trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased
Tags: inspirational-by-all-means
If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
Thomas JeffersonI am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas JeffersonI hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas JeffersonTags: government corporations founding-fathers
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
Thomas JeffersonTags: justice democracy law american-revolution governance constitutional-law us-constitution
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