Earth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

— Thomas Jefferson

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

— Thomas Jefferson

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":…

— Thomas Jefferson

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— 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

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever…

— Thomas Jefferson

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States…

— Thomas Jefferson

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. .…

— 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

I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below…

— Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they…

— 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

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them…

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The earth belongs always to the living generations.”

— Thomas Jefferson

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on…

— Thomas Jefferson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

— Thomas Jefferson

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with…

— Thomas Jefferson

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he…

— Thomas Jefferson