Thomas Jefferson Stand Quotations

I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form let them stand undisturbed as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army