Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 579 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.~ Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.~ Andrew Jackson The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.~ John Jay Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.~ John Jay The people who own the country ought to govern it.~ John Jay A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.~ Thomas Jefferson A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.~ Thomas Jefferson A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.~ Thomas Jefferson 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 circle of our felicity.~ Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.~ Thomas Jefferson An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.~ Thomas Jefferson And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.~ Thomas Jefferson And, finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.~ Thomas Jefferson Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.~ Thomas Jefferson Error of opinion may be tolerated when reason is left free to combat it.~ Thomas Jefferson Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.~ Thomas Jefferson Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.~ Thomas Jefferson 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.~ Thomas Jefferson For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.~ Thomas Jefferson Force (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print