“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
– Thomas Jefferson“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
– Thomas Jefferson“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
– Thomas Jefferson“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
– Thomas Jefferson“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
– Thomas Jefferson“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
– Thomas Jefferson“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
– Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson said in 1802:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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The second and seventh quotes appear to be fakes but I agree with the sentiment of all. Jefferson was an amazing man.
It is difficult to believe that Thomas J., could be so perceptive that long ago.
Jefferson does not get enough credit for his brilliance. Is it any wonder why the bigovernment schools don’t teach American history anymore?
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
That is my complaint against Obamacare, in a nutshell.
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html
From Thomas Jeffersons first inaugural
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson
He was referring the usurers here, we did not have foodstamps and poorhouses in those days.
Jefferson on the end of the Republic…
“…a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.”
I believe the second quote is very close to a passage from Francis Newton Thorpe’s “A Constitutional History of the American People” (1898). Paraphrase below…
“Remove the field or withhold the rewards of a mans labor, and democracy will disappear”
I could find no close paraphrase in the writings of Thomas Jefferson. He favored the words “republic” and “experiment” over democracy, when describing our new government. Still a great quote.