Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

You think we live in a time of never before experiences, but the truth is human nature does not change and it seems we are destined to continue repeating our mistakes. Many men are considered intelligent and wise. Then you meet our founding father Thomas Jefferson. 

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct." - Thomas Jefferson

"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

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country." - Thomas Jefferson

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." - Thomas Jefferson

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education." Thomas Jefferson

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way." - Thomas Jefferson

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good." - Thomas Jefferson

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." - Thomas Jefferson

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. -

Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? - Thomas Jefferson

Source: email from Herman Talmadge III, Georgians for Constitutional Government Facebook.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader