It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
– Thomas Jefferson
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- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. – Thomas Jefferson
- “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson
- History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson
- It’s every American’s duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. – Thomas Clifford