Thomas Jefferson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Thomas Jefferson

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists.

Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson