--- title: "Best Earth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson" description: "54 Earth quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Earth sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/thomas-jefferson-43_command_i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-ear_1756589.jpg" --- > [I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-earth-belongs-exclusively-to-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/thomas-jefferson-43_command_i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-ear_1756589.jpg) > [So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/so-ask-the-travelled-inhabitant-of-any-nation-in-what-country-on/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ad/thomas-jefferson-43_affection_so-ask-the-travelled-inhabitant-of-any-n_1084435.jpg) > [I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-do-verily-believe-that-if-the-principle-were-to-prevail-of-a-common/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f7/thomas-jefferson-43_believe_i-do-verily-believe-that-if-the-principl_2587060.jpg) > [With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/with-all-the-defects-in-our-constitution-whether-general-or/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/thomas-jefferson-43_comparison_with-all-the-defects-in-our-constitution_2459572.jpg) > [Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/wake-up-dream-have-the-ambition-to-do-the-things-you-have-always/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-jefferson-43_achieve_wake-up-dream-have-the-ambition-to-do-th_1087715.jpg) > [Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/every-man-and-every-body-of-men-on-earth-possesses-the-right-of-self/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9aa/thomas-jefferson-43_body_every-man-and-every-body-of-men-on-earth_470448.jpg) > [Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/cultivators-of-the-earth-are-the-most-valuable-citizens-they-are-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/thomas-jefferson-43_agriculture_cultivators-of-the-earth-are-the-most-va_386777.jpg) > [Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/whenever-there-are-in-any-country-uncultivated-lands-and-unemployed/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/thomas-jefferson-43_business_whenever-there-are-in-any-country-uncult_2657192.jpg) > [Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/having-seen-the-people-of-all-other-nations-bowed-down-to-the-earth/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8b/thomas-jefferson-43_anti-war_having-seen-the-people-of-all-other-nati_1767564.jpg) > [Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/millions-of-innocent-men-women-and-children-since-the-introduction-of-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/thomas-jefferson-43_american-founding-fa_millions-of-innocent-men-women-and-child_2170873.jpg) > [What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to-make-one-half-the-world-fools/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a4/thomas-jefferson-43_coercion_what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to_238945.jpg) > [A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-single-good-government-becomes-a-blessing-to-the-whole-earth-its/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/thomas-jefferson-43_blessing_a-single-good-government-becomes-a-bless_2996654.jpg) > [I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-leave-to-others-the-sublime-delights-of-riding-in-the-storm-better/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c4/thomas-jefferson-43_ambition_i-leave-to-others-the-sublime-delights-o_3035244.jpg) > [I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-set-out-on-this-ground-which-i-suppose-to-be-self-evident-that-the-3/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/thomas-jefferson-43_4th-of-july_i-set-out-on-this-ground-which-i-suppose_2669502.jpg) ## Other authors on Earth - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-degrasse-tyson-70683.jpg) Neil deGrasse Tyson 90 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/neil-degrasse-tyson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-sagan-20994.jpg) Carl Sagan 66 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/carl-sagan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 65 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 59 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/frederick-lenz/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 51 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 46 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 46 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/barack-obama/) - [Mehmet Murat ildan 44 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 40 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 39 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/charles-dickens/) ## 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/earth/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "Best Earth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-earth-belongs-exclusively-to-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/thomas-jefferson-43_command_i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-ear_1756589.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/thomas-jefferson-43_command_i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-ear_1756589.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/thomas-jefferson-43_command_i-am-increasingly-persuaded-that-the-ear_1756589.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. 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