Thomas Jefferson Quotes

3d President of the United States (1801–09)
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Lived: 1743–1826
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes/Quotations

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and
armed militia is their best security."
- Thomas Jefferson: message to Congress, Nov. 1808

"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of
tyrants and patriots."
- Thomas Jefferson

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson

"In matters of style swim with the current in matters of principle stand
like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson

 

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