Body Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

— Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong.

— Thomas Jefferson

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

— Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

— Thomas Jefferson

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny

— Thomas Jefferson

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength…

— Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

— Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose…

— Thomas Jefferson

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he…

— Thomas Jefferson

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send…

— Thomas Jefferson

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at…

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise…

— Thomas Jefferson

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— Thomas Jefferson

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,…

— Thomas Jefferson

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

— 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

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

— Thomas Jefferson

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

— Thomas Jefferson

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

— Thomas Jefferson

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief…

— Thomas Jefferson

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able…

— 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

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet…

— 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