Liberty Quotation of the Day: Thomas Jefferson on Government of Self and of Others

Quote Posted on April 3, 2014 Updated on April 3, 2014

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?  Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?  Let history be the answer to this question.”

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address [1801]