Thomas Jefferson Philosophical Quotes — Page 17

Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.”

Government Littles Politics

♥ 7

Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.”

Men Kings Pursuit Of Happiness

♥ 7

Philosophical

“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”

Government History

♥ 7

Philosophical

“Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.”

Enough Wells

♥ 7

Philosophical

“Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.”

Religion Atheism Christianity

♥ 7

Philosophical

“letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.”

Lasts Educational Letters

♥ 7

Philosophical

“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”

Life Past Ambition

♥ 7

Philosophical

“My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.”

Different Action Independent

♥ 7

Philosophical

“When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.”

Views Public Opinion Often Is

♥ 7

Philosophical

“How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!”

Nature Feet Rain

♥ 7

Philosophical

“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.”

People Men Education

♥ 7

Philosophical

“If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.”

People Government Rights

♥ 7

Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

Thomas Jefferson Quotes