"I like to see the people awake..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I like to see the people awake and alert.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.”
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
“[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.”
More on People
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.”
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.”
“Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!”
More on Awareness
“We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.”
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”
“To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.”