Sunday, 12 April 2026

13 April: Thomas Jefferson Quotes

10 quotes from Thomas Jefferson, former US President born this date in 1743, back in the days when US presidents didn't sound like Kevin the Teenager on a bad day.

  1. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

  2. A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

  3. When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

  4. To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

  5. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

  6. Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

  7. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

  8. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

  9. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  10. Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality.




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