Quotes by Jefferson, Thomas

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virt >>

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate >>

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than >>

Quotations about Government

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fi >>

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. >>

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and d >>

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas