Believe Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

— Thomas Jefferson

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

— Thomas Jefferson

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

— Thomas Jefferson

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that…

— Thomas Jefferson

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best.…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every…

— Thomas Jefferson

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do…

— 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

When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots…

— Thomas Jefferson

The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if…

— Thomas Jefferson

It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we…

— Thomas Jefferson

Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that…

— Thomas Jefferson

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable…

— Thomas Jefferson