A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed Quotes

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”
― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish the law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan.”
― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed

“History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”
― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprinted from the Original Ed