| "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813]. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
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| "If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| "Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste." Thomas Jefferson |
| "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Thomas Jefferson |
| (Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| ... the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
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| ...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. Thomas Jefferson |
| The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. . . . Students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. Thomas Jefferson |
| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences Thomas Jefferson |
| A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit Thomas Jefferson |
| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. Thomas Jefferson |
| A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. Thomas Jefferson |
| A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society Thomas Jefferson |
| A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims Thomas Jefferson |
| A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| A strong body makes the mind strong Thomas Jefferson |
| A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson |
| A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character Thomas Jefferson |
| A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson |
| Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor Thomas Jefferson |
| Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson |
| Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| All authority belongs to the people Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent. Thomas Jefferson |
| All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson |
| Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that.. of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens Thomas Jefferson |
| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson |
| An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than state Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and Thomas Jefferson |
| Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Be polite to all, but intimate with few. Thomas Jefferson |
| Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used Thomas Jefferson |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Letter to Connecticut Baptists Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Thomas Jefferson |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. Thomas Jefferson |
| Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. Thomas Jefferson |
| Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Thomas Jefferson |
| Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson |
| But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State. Thomas Jefferson |
| But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine Thomas Jefferson |
| But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson |
| But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror Thomas Jefferson |
| Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Thomas Jefferson |
| Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law Thomas Jefferson |
| Common sense is The Foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. Thomas Jefferson |
| Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government Thomas Jefferson |
| Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson |
| Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson |
| Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson |
| Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson |
| Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do Thomas Jefferson |
| Doubts often beget the facts they fear. Thomas Jefferson |
| Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson |
| Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson |
| Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Every generation needs a new revolution. Thomas Jefferson |
| Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead... Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us Thomas Jefferson |
| Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. Thomas Jefferson |
| Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Thomas Jefferson |
| Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind Thomas Jefferson |
| Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility Thomas Jefferson |
| Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| He who knows best knows how little he knows Thomas Jefferson |
| He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Health is the requisite after morality Thomas Jefferson |
| Health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson |
| History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny Thomas Jefferson |
| History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. Thomas Jefferson |
| History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. Thomas Jefferson |
| Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson |
| How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another Thomas Jefferson |
| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. Thomas Jefferson |
| I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. Thomas Jefferson |
| I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Thomas Jefferson |
| I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Thomas Jefferson |
| I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. Thomas Jefferson |
| I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. Thomas Jefferson |
| I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. Thomas Jefferson |
| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson |
| I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Thomas Jefferson |
| I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. Thomas Jefferson |
| I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may Thomas Jefferson |
| I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. Thomas Jefferson |
| I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. Thomas Jefferson |
| I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government Thomas Jefferson |
| I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Thomas Jefferson |
| I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro' the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener. Thomas Jefferson |
| I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so Thomas Jefferson |
| I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private Fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country Thomas Jefferson |
| I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them Thomas Jefferson |
| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I live for books. Thomas Jefferson |
| I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. Thomas Jefferson |
| I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson |
| I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. 1816, in a Letter to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith Thomas Jefferson |
| I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives... Thomas Jefferson |
| I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? Thomas Jefferson |
| I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in Thomas Jefferson |
| I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities. Thomas Jefferson |
| I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. Thomas Jefferson |
| I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. 1816 Thomas Jefferson |
| I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious. Thomas Jefferson |
| I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| I would wish my countrymen to adopt just so much of European politeness as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self, which really render Europeans amiable, and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjec Thomas Jefferson |
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson |
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson |
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson |
| If The Children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson |
| If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence Thomas Jefferson |
| If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson |
| If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else Thomas Jefferson |
| If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest Thomas Jefferson |
| If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed Thomas Jefferson |
| If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science. Thomas Jefferson |
| If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. Thomas Jefferson |
| Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Thomas Jefferson |
| In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Information is the currency of democracy. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Is it the Fourth? (last words) Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own Thomas Jefferson |
| It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that, too, of the people with a certain degree of instruction Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead Thomas Jefferson |
| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it Thomas Jefferson |
| It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson |
| It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Thomas Jefferson |
| It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| It is, however, an evil for which there is no remedy, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. Thomas Jefferson |
| Laws and institutions must go hand and hand with the progress of the human mind Thomas Jefferson |
| Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure Thomas Jefferson |
| Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson |
| Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. Thomas Jefferson |
| Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations Thomas Jefferson |
| Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Most virtues when carried beyond certain bonds degenerate into vices. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers Thomas Jefferson |
| My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. Thomas Jefferson |
| My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity a Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Thomas Jefferson |
| Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. Thomas Jefferson |
| Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. Thomas Jefferson |
| No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. Thomas Jefferson |
| No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. Thomas Jefferson |
| No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity Thomas Jefferson |
| Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. Thomas Jefferson |
| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson |
| Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson |
| Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson |
| Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. Thomas Jefferson |
| Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence Thomas Jefferson |
| Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson |
| Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson |
| On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more Thomas Jefferson |
| Our constitution is a peace establishment — it is not calculated for war. War would endanger its existence. Thomas Jefferson |
| Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press. Thomas Jefferson Remarks |
| Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson |
| Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I inquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the Thomas Jefferson |
| Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Peace is our passion Thomas Jefferson |
| Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. Thomas Jefferson |
| Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson |
| Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. Thomas Jefferson |
| Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error Thomas Jefferson |
| Power is not alluring to pure minds Thomas Jefferson |
| Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. Thomas Jefferson |
| Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. Thomas Jefferson |
| Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. Thomas Jefferson |
| Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. Thomas Jefferson Sayings |
| Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure Thomas Jefferson |
| Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| Taste cannot be controlled by law Thomas Jefferson |
| That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in va Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain. Thomas Jefferson |
| That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical Thomas Jefferson |
| That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The Advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration Thomas Jefferson |
| The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I Thomas Jefferson |
| The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. Thomas Jefferson |
| The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible Thomas Jefferson |
| The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people Thomas Jefferson |
| The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita Thomas Jefferson Popular Quotes |
| The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Thomas Jefferson Adages |
| The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equa |
