“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
Thomas Jefferson
Tags: Control | Depository | Discretion | Enlightened | Enough | Exercise | Inform | Know | Powers | Remedy | Safe | Society | Take | Their | Them | Themselves | Think | Ultimate | Wholesome
48% of people like this quote
Thomas Jefferson
Other Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
85% of people like this quote
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
82% of people like this quote
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
79% of people like this quote
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
78% of people like this quote