--- title: "7 Committed Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "7 Committed quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Committed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and_507831.jpg" --- > [We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and-the-world-declare-that/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and_507831.jpg) > [ Ministers of the Gospel are excluded \[from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools\] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-from-serving-as-visitors-of-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/thomas-jefferson-43_cases_ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-fro_628946.jpg) > [Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/of-all-the-errors-which-can-possibly-be-committed-to-the-education-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/thomas-jefferson-43_age_of-all-the-errors-which-can-possibly-be_1072096.jpg) > [I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-join-cordially-in-admiring-and-revering-the-constitution-of-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57a/thomas-jefferson-43_admiring_i-join-cordially-in-admiring-and-reverin_1260109.jpg) > [ No other depositories of power \[but the people themselves\] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/no-other-depositories-of-power-but-the-people-themselves-have-ever/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/thomas-jefferson-43_committed_no-other-depositories-of-power-but-the-p_1962736.jpg) > [By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-nature-s-law-man-is-at-peace-with-man-till-some-aggression-is/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/thomas-jefferson-43_aggression_by-nature-s-law-man-is-at-peace-with-man_2567917.jpg) > [It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-has-also-been-a-great-solace-to-me-to-believe-that-you-are-engaged/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/thomas-jefferson-43_administration_it-has-also-been-a-great-solace-to-me-to_2580882.jpg) ## Other authors on Committed ## More by Thomas Jefferson > [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/committed/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "7 Committed Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and-the-world-declare-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and_507831.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and_507831.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_we-do-then-most-solemnly-before-god-and_507831.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-from-serving-as-visitors-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/thomas-jefferson-43_cases_ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-fro_628946.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/thomas-jefferson-43_cases_ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-fro_628946.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/thomas-jefferson-43_cases_ministers-of-the-gospel-are-excluded-fro_628946.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is themost fatal. 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