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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Jefferson :: View Quote View 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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Jefferson Listed in: Government Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.29  Rate Quote 14 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Jefferson "I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Top 5 quotes from Government "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." "Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government." "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

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