Nature Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

— Thomas Jefferson

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

— Thomas Jefferson

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

— Thomas Jefferson

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral…

— 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

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on…

— Thomas Jefferson

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

— Thomas Jefferson

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their…

— Thomas Jefferson

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents…

— 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

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the…

— Thomas Jefferson

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…

— 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

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

— 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

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes…

— Thomas Jefferson

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives…

— Thomas Jefferson

The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…

— Thomas Jefferson

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate…

— Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…

— Thomas Jefferson

“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of…

— Thomas Jefferson

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

— Thomas Jefferson

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The earth belongs always to the living generations.”

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

— Thomas Jefferson