--- title: "17 Effects Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "17 Effects quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Effects sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e7/thomas-jefferson-43_effects_the-plough-is-to-the-farmer-what-the-wan_608087.jpg" --- > [The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-plough-is-to-the-farmer-what-the-wand-is-to-the-sorcerer-its/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e7/thomas-jefferson-43_effects_the-plough-is-to-the-farmer-what-the-wan_608087.jpg) > [Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/debt-and-revolution-are-inseparable-as-cause-and-effect/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b9/thomas-jefferson-43_cause-and-effect_debt-and-revolution-are-inseparable-as-c_240651.jpg) > [Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse-in-any-country-if-it-were-the-laws/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/thomas-jefferson-43_country_ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse-in-any_352703.jpg) > [Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/communities-should-be-planned-with-an-eye-to-the-effect-on-the-human/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd9/thomas-jefferson-43_beauty_communities-should-be-planned-with-an-ey_2784808.jpg) > [ What has been the effect of \[religious\] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/what-has-been-the-effect-of-religious-coercion-to-make-one-half-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e73/thomas-jefferson-43_american-founding-fa_what-has-been-the-effect-of-religious-co_3189614.jpg) > [no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/no-one-more-sincerely-wishes-the-spread-of-information-among-mankind/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/thomas-jefferson-43_confidence_no-one-more-sincerely-wishes-the-spread_2076590.jpg) > [The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-tumults-in-america-i-expected-would-have-produced-in-europe-an/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/thomas-jefferson-43_america_the-tumults-in-america-i-expected-would_1326992.jpg) > [I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-do-not-believe-war-the-most-certain-means-of-enforcing-principles/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/thomas-jefferson-43_believe_i-do-not-believe-war-the-most-certain-me_3218352.jpg) > [...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-impossible-i-say-for-the-human-mind-not-to-believe-that-there/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ec/thomas-jefferson-43_all-things_it-is-impossible-i-say-for-the-human-min_2657707.jpg) > [I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-could-think-of-no-worse-example-for-nations-abroad-who-for-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b82/thomas-jefferson-43_america_i-could-think-of-no-worse-example-for-na_778891.jpg) > [It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-a-cruel-thought-that-when-we-feel-ourselves-standing-on-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/thomas-jefferson-43_arms_it-is-a-cruel-thought-that-when-we-feel_987411.jpg) > [Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/men-of-energy-of-character-must-have-enemies-because-there-are-two/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/thomas-jefferson-43_acting_men-of-energy-of-character-must-have-ene_516444.jpg) > [I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-suppose-indeed-that-in-public-life-a-man-whose-political-principles/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/thomas-jefferson-43_adverse_i-suppose-indeed-that-in-public-life-a-m_1276312.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) > [It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-would-reduce-the-whole-instrument-to-a-single-phrase-that-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/683/thomas-jefferson-43_congress_it-would-reduce-the-whole-instrument-to_2553205.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) > [In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-every-country-and-every-age-the-priest-has-been-hostile-to-liberty/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9e/thomas-jefferson-43_abuse_in-every-country-and-every-age-the-pries_2028799.jpg) ## Other authors on Effects ## 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/effects/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "17 Effects Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. 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