Life Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

— Thomas Jefferson

Question boldly even the existence of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

— Thomas Jefferson

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

— Thomas Jefferson

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

— Thomas Jefferson

The dead should not rule the living

— Thomas Jefferson

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

— Thomas Jefferson

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

— Thomas Jefferson

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain: and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks…

— Thomas Jefferson

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

— 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

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates…

— 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

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

— Thomas Jefferson

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

— 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

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its…

— 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

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of…

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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,…

— Thomas Jefferson

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are…

— Thomas Jefferson

The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty…

— 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

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would…

— Thomas Jefferson

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. .…

— Thomas Jefferson

I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility…

— Thomas Jefferson

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to…

— Thomas Jefferson

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,…

— Thomas Jefferson

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

— Thomas Jefferson

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson