Happiness Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad

— Thomas Jefferson

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

— Thomas Jefferson

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

— Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

— Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

— Thomas Jefferson

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

— Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

— Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result…

— Thomas Jefferson

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this…

— Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself…

— Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be…

— Thomas Jefferson

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense…

— Thomas Jefferson

Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old…

— Thomas Jefferson

Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I…

— Thomas Jefferson

The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God…

— Thomas Jefferson

Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity…

— Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free…

— Thomas Jefferson

The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of…

— Thomas Jefferson

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself…

— Thomas Jefferson

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence

— Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

— Thomas Jefferson

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

— Thomas Jefferson