Business Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

— Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain

— Thomas Jefferson

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

— Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

— Thomas Jefferson

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

— Thomas Jefferson

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other…

— Thomas Jefferson

War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly…

— Thomas Jefferson

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

— Thomas Jefferson

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the…

— Thomas Jefferson

It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to…

— Thomas Jefferson

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be…

— 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

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds…

— Thomas Jefferson

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against…

— Thomas Jefferson

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures…

— Thomas Jefferson

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out…

— Thomas Jefferson

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…

— Thomas Jefferson

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:…

— Thomas Jefferson

You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each…

— Thomas Jefferson

The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

— Thomas Jefferson

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

— Thomas Jefferson

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

— Thomas Jefferson

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look…

— Thomas Jefferson

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy…

— 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

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State…

— Thomas Jefferson