Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Civil Rights

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The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

Civil Rights, Abandon, Presses

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. X (in 12 Volumes): Correspondence and Papers 1803-1807”, p.368, Cosimo, Inc.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Thomas Jefferson

Drawing, Teeth, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.40, Rowman & Littlefield

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism, Liberty, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.66, Courier Corporation

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Law, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.257

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Thomas Jefferson

Civil Rights, Equal, Enterprise

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Civil Rights, Commerce, Manage

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

Thomas Jefferson

Art, Information, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.582

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Thomas Jefferson

Accountability, Principles, Civil Rights

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Law, Civil Rights

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Civil Rights, Separation Of Church And State

Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (1940). “John Dewey Presents the Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson”