Thomas Jefferson Trust Quotations

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.