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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[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.
Thomas JeffersonTo take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés fair-share
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés government self-government
I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom,
than have peaceful slavery
Mots clés inpirational
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés education ideas internet intellectual-property
I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés love lawyers jefferson presidents th
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thomas JeffersonNo free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas JeffersonThe laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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