All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Independence”

“If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.”
“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.”
“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.”
“Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.”
“It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them; but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them.”
“Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.”
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].”

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