Done Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

— Thomas Jefferson

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

— Thomas Jefferson

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

— Thomas Jefferson

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

— Thomas Jefferson

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who…

— Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without…

— Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what…

— 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

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that…

— Thomas Jefferson

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,…

— Thomas Jefferson

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure…

— Thomas Jefferson

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the…

— Thomas Jefferson

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights…

— Thomas Jefferson

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for…

— Thomas Jefferson

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…

— Thomas Jefferson