Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Voting

• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

• When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Voting, Principles

• Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Rights, People

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

• The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, People, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

• Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Voting

• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Voting

• The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Voting, Reform

  "The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826".

• The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

• The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Interesting, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.11, Modern Library

• The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Safety, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1955). “Political Writings: Representative Selections”

• Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Voting, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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