Thomas Jefferson Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance.	Aristocracy
2	All authority belongs to the people.	Authority
3	I sincerely believe. . . that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.	Banking
4	I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.	Bible
5	But it is not by the consolidation, or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.	Bureaucracy
6	I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.	Censorship
7	The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.	Constitution
8	In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.	Constitution
9	Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.	Country
10	A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.	Coward

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