Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Freedom and Liberty

17+ Thomas Jefferson Freedom & Liberty Quotes

If you give freedom to your children then you will know what they can do. If you give freedom to your employee then you will know what wonders they can do. If you give freedom to your wife or husband then you will know about what he/she can do for your family.

As well, If the government gives freedom to people in respectful areas where their presence requires then you will know what the people can do for the government. Every action in the world needs the freedom to do that as best. Most wonders will come when you do things as different.

Let’s look at the U.S. 3rd President Thomas Jefferson quotes on freedom that includes what, why, and how is the freedom required in speech, religion, security, decisions, government, people, and more.

1. Don’t talk about what you have done or What you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson

Don't talk about what you have done

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2. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people

3. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone

4. History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is

5. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good

6. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future Better than the history of the past

7. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty

8. If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people

9. No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms

10. No government ought to be without censors. And where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson

No government ought to be without censors

11. Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
Thomas Jefferson

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions

12. That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself apart.
Thomas Jefferson

That government is the strongest of which every man feels

13. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness

14. The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights.
Thomas Jefferson

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable

15. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions

16. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

17. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson

18. Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson

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