My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good se…

Thomas Jefferson
1179 citations
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
Time
9

More Author Quotes

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2004). Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, p.110, Modern Library
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they … ▶
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will … ▶
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (185 … ▶
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. ✨ Letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 2 Apr. 1790

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes