Thomas Jefferson Libertarian Quotations

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.