Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

You may all go when you wish.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?