Thomas Jefferson Historical Quotations

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.