Some of my favorites.
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826),
Notes on the State of Virginia -
denouncing the evils of slavery
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
We never regret having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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 (1743 - 1826)
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826),
letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
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 (1743 - 1826)
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal
treatment of unequal people.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
My only fear is that I may live too long.
This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), 1801
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the
rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 182
...and God Bless Texas. I would have moved there years ago if it weren't for my wife's obligation to her aging parents. I live in California.
"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 (1743 - 1826)
Those two (2) quotes, above all, need to be hammered into the Joe-Soccor-Mom mentality again and again and again, until they finally understand and stop voting for well-spoken "charming" politicians.
Actual source: John Philpot Curran, in a speech before the Privy Council on July 10, 1790.
"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." NEAR-MISS
It's a common mis-quote. The correct quote is:
"if we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802[1]
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." BOGUS:
"This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. It bears a very vague resemblance to Jefferson's comment in a prospectus for his translation of Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy:
"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.'"[3]"
"There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people." BOGUS