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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Yield
Thomas Jefferson (2015). “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Lulu.com

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Fighting, Men

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Believe, Light
Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.293, Algora Publishing

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Age, Trials
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Parent
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.110, Rowman & Littlefield

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Freedom, Mean

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Ideas, Light
Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson
Truth, Freedom, Ignorance

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Government
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1803-1807”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Rights, People

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Grace, Liberty
Letter to Roger C.Weightman, 24 June 1826.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Men, Mind
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Science, Firsts
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1903). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Democracies Have, Law
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Freedom, Science
Letter to William Green Mumford, June 18, 1799.

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Liberty, Noble
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.273, Cambridge University Press

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Moving, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, Blessing, Government
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.450

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

Thomas Jefferson
Children, Freedom, Father
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers”, p.493