I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. Power | Thomas Jefferson quote
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. Government | Thomas Jefferson quote
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. Government | Thomas Jefferson quote
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson quote