Thomas Jefferson Democracies Have Quotations

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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