49 quotes
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
"Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
on Freedom
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."
on Truth
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
on Wisdom
"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character"
"no people can be both ignorant and free."
"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none"
on Diplomacy
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
on Philosophy
"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
on Government
"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
on Inspirational
"Everything yields to diligence"
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it."
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure."
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
