Some of Thomas Jefferson's Quotes

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe 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

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
― Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I know 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 by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I hold it that a little r*******n now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful r*******ns indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this t***h should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of r*******ns, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Peaver, this is the most pertinent Jefferson quote for today:
“I know 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 by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Has anyone on OPP read the 1787 Northwest Ordinance penned by Thomas Jefferson in July signed into law by President George Washington and attached to the Constitution in August 1787?

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp
Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787
An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio.

The NW Ordinance mandated the end of s***ery west of the Ohio River, strict adherence to Indian treaties, and entrance of new States to the Union under the Eual Footing Clause of ownership of all lands between their borders just as the original 13 states. The Bureau of Land Management (B*M) which has seized 50% of all US Land, is as unconstitutional as Black L***s M****r (B*M).

Our Founding Fathers deliberately created a national bankruptcy Court in our Constitution to end Indentured servitude and the sale of s***es to settle estate debts. Washington and Jefferson inherited their s***es but freed them upon death, hoping to avoid civil war by ending s***ery piecemeal. The Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned much of Jefferson's efforts and civil war ensued. So much for the pretense and posturing of the Democrat Party with its KKK ushering in Democrat Progressive President Woodrow Wilson.

Why are there no civics courses taught in public schools today? Oh yes, c****e Common Core is taught.

Hillsdale College has a wonderful free online class on the Constitution and offers Barnie charter schools to all races!

Why is the CRT so important to anyone. How many American’s, born in America and alive today have been a s***e or owned a s***e? There are places in the world where s***ery still exists but not in the US of A. Would you not be better served if you actually attempted to make the actions of the people equal? Would the nation not be better served if male and female who decided to have offspring were to form a family group to raise those young? How does a war against becoming a responsible family member improve the life of anyone? One reason given for children joining gangs is that the other gang members recognize them as individuals. Why is that better than a family acting together to raise their offspring? How can you not reject a male who does not take responsibility for this offspring? Some few species of the lower animal orders do mate for life and care for their offspring. Many do not. By creating life why do you think your responsibility should end before the life you created is able to survive without your care. How easy you make your point by outshouting the opposite view.

Why is the CRT so important to anyone. How many American’s, born in America and alive today have been a s***e or owned a s***e? There are places in the world where s***ery still exists but not in the US of A. Would you not be better served if you actually attempted to make the actions of the people equal? Would the nation not be better served if male and female who decided to have offspring were to form a family group to raise those young? How does a war against becoming a responsible family member improve the life of anyone? One reason given for children joining gangs is that the other gang members recognize them as individuals. Why is that better than a family acting together to raise their offspring? How can you not reject a male who does not take responsibility for this offspring? Some few species of the lower animal orders do mate for life and care for their offspring. Many do not. By creating life why do you think your responsibility should end before the life you created is able to survive without your care. How easy you make your point by outshouting the opposite view.