Thomas Jefferson Government Quotes

What did Thomas Jefferson say about Government?

Thomas Jefferson has written many quotes about Government. E.g.,

• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
• Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

What are the top most famous Government quotes by Thomas Jefferson?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Government by Thomas Jefferson.

• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
• Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
• When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
• I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
• If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.