Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Security

• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Mean, Gun

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.226, Algora Publishing

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Achieve, Abandon, Security

• The only security of all is in a free press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom Of The Press, Free Press, Security

  Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 4 Nov. 1823

• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Tyrants, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

• Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peculiar, Paper, Notable

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

• The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, He Man

• Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thank You, Education, Teacher

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

• May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Eye, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

• The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Water, Agitation, Public Opinion

  Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 4 Nov. 1823

• Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, People, Prosperity

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1958). “Papers: March 1789 to 30 November 1789”

• May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.450

• The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Encouragement, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1990). “Public and private papers”, Vintage Books

• The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Virtue, Crime

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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