Government is the primary authority channel in every nation. The main aim of every government is to take care of the Nation. To take care of the people then it’s to take care of the Nation.
Let’s here get the famous government quotes from the 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson that includes what Thomas Jefferson said about government, what the government can do for people, what the government has to do for people, what’s the government power, how the people cooperate with government and more.
1. A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse,or rest on inference.
– Thomas Jefferson
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2. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
– Thomas Jefferson
3. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
– Thomas Jefferson
4. Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
– Thomas Jefferson
5. 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
6. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
– Thomas Jefferson
7. It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself.
– Thomas Jefferson
8. Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
– Thomas Jefferson
9. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
– Thomas Jefferson
10. Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
– Thomas Jefferson
11. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
– Thomas Jefferson
12. That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
– Thomas Jefferson
13. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
– Thomas Jefferson
14. The laws that forbid the carrying of arm. Disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
– Thomas Jefferson
15. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
– Thomas Jefferson
16. The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
– Thomas Jefferson
17. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
– Thomas Jefferson
18. There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
– Thomas Jefferson
19. Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
– Thomas Jefferson
20. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
– Thomas Jefferson
21. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
– Thomas Jefferson
22. Whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
– Thomas Jefferson
23. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
– Thomas Jefferson
24. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
– Thomas Jefferson
25. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
– Thomas Jefferson
26. Whenever people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.
– Thomas Jefferson
