Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Founding Fathers On Government And Democracy

The whole art of government consists in being honest.

     -Thomas Jefferson, from Works, VI, 1786




Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

      -Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776



The government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

     -Thomas Jefferson, letter to H.D. Tiffin, February 2, 1807

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