Thomas Jefferson the best american ever

every quote is worthy of remembering



A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Thomas Jefferson


What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson


It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson


All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson


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

Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Thomas Jefferson

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson


To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson


Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Thomas Jefferson


I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson


We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it

Thomas Jefferson

the point of the 2nd amendment is to scare the shit out of our government, and make sure they remember who they work for

that is the origin

We have the right to speak our mind, write what we want, even if it makes our government uncomfortable..and if they start to restrict that primary freedom, the 2nd amenment gives us the means to make sure they understand who runs this show

WE run it, not a king, not a President, not the Senate or the Congress

Certainly not the unelected EU like you guys have over there (sorry you're stuck with that...maybe that's why you don't really understand)

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington knew that all governments grow too large and oppressive as time goes on. Freedom to tyranny is the natural progression of governments

They knew that the time would come when the citizens of this nation might have to take back control

WE the people run this joint. They seem to have forgotten that. Idiots like Danny Glover are so obsessed with race, they want to make this about them, their issue which is literally skin deep

Never mind that half a million men died to make sure that Danny Glover is fully included as "WE THE PEOPLE", that these rights now are fully for him as much as anyone else...

So screw him, and focus on the intention, and this wonderful exercise in government which the founding fathers set into motion


"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776


“Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised…to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia…” (In Virginia’s Ratifying Convention, Elliot p.3:379-380)


The 2nd Amendment was NOT written for 'Hunting' moran.

It was to protect us from Foreign AND DOMESTIC Usurpation.

Seems like there has NEVER been a MORE RELEVANT time in history for the 2nd amendment to apply.