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Wisdom Quotes From Founding Father, President Thomas Jefferson Neither aiming at originality of principles, or sentiments, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind. We wanted not only to communicate in words and ideas that were popular in Europe, we wanted the Declaration of Independence to be reflective of the way Americans thought. Thomas Jefferson, reflecting on why the committee chose the phraseology that they did in the writing of the Declaration of Independence The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Thomas Jefferson, founding father You seem...to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so...The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. Quote from Thomas Jefferson, president and founding father On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson, president and founding father 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, president and founding father A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%. Thomas Jefferson, president and founding father
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, president and founding father I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson, founding father All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that through the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson, president and founding father I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson, founding father The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period. Thomas Jefferson, founding father Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson, founding father and president Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. And that you may be always doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of yours affectionately. Thomas Jefferson, founding father The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive - It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all - I like a little rebellion now and then - It is like a storm in the atmosphere. Thomas Jefferson, president and founding father Books constitute capital - A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years - It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson, founding father and president Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention - Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them - If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves. Thomas Jefferson, founding father The Constitution allows only the means which are ‘necessary,’ not those which are merely ‘convenient,’ for effecting the enumerated powers. If such a latitude of construction be allowed to this phrase as to give any non-enumerated power, it will go to every one, for there is not one which ingenuity may not torture into a convenience in some instance or other, to some one of so long a list of enumerated powers. It would swallow up all the delegated powers, and reduce the whole to one power, as before observed. Thomas Jefferson, founding father Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. Thomas Jefferson, founding father If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson, founding father To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers 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, & the fruits acquired by it.
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
And that all future contracts shall be deemed void as to what shall remain unpaid at the end of 19 years from their date? This would put the lenders, and the borrowers also, on their guard. By reducing too the faculty of borrowing within its natural limits, it would bridle the spirit of war, to which too free a course has been procured by the inattention of money lenders to this law of nature, that succeeding generations are not responsible for the preceding. Thomas Jefferson, founding father We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government.
Thomas Jefferson, founding father I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. Thomas Jefferson, founding father Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Thomas Jefferson, founding father [I]n cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the general government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy. In the question of power, then, let no more be heard in confidence of man, but bind down his mischief with the chains of the constitution. Thomas Jefferson, founding father
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