I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions...but I know also that laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.....
Thomas JeffersonThe God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Thomas JeffersonMen have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...
Thomas JeffersonI'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas JeffersonHe has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
Thomas JeffersonI am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés progress society change laws imperfections constitution advances
I can not live without books.
Thomas JeffersonThe policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonI [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés science philosophy
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés politics
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