All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “4th Of July”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”
“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.”
“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement”
“The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
“Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author”
“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.”
“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

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