A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Quotern

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy

Recommended for You ...

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail

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

-- Thomas Jefferson

Copy Detail