Country Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The merchant has no country .

— Thomas Jefferson

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

— Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country.

— Thomas Jefferson

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

— Thomas Jefferson

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

— Thomas Jefferson

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

— Thomas Jefferson

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

— Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

— Thomas Jefferson

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

— Thomas Jefferson

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is…

— Thomas Jefferson

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they…

— Thomas Jefferson

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot,…

— Thomas Jefferson

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…

— Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating…

— Thomas Jefferson

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our…

— Thomas Jefferson

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…

— Thomas Jefferson

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers…

— Thomas Jefferson

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw…

— Thomas Jefferson

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

— Thomas Jefferson

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our…

— Thomas Jefferson