Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Power
-
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
→ -
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
→ -
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
→ -
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
→ -
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
→ -
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
→