Age Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

— Thomas Jefferson

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

— Thomas Jefferson

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot,…

— Thomas Jefferson

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you…

— Thomas Jefferson

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it…

— Thomas Jefferson

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of…

— 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

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now…

— 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

I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on…

— 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

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these…

— 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

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of…

— 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

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to…

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost…

— 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

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape…

— Thomas Jefferson

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New…

— Thomas Jefferson