Evil Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some…

— Thomas Jefferson

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

— Thomas Jefferson

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

— Thomas Jefferson

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

— Thomas Jefferson

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or…

— Thomas Jefferson

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have…

— Thomas Jefferson

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied…

— Thomas Jefferson

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.…

— Thomas Jefferson

1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your…

— Thomas Jefferson

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most…

— Thomas Jefferson

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing…

— Thomas Jefferson

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid…

— Thomas Jefferson

Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity…

— Thomas Jefferson

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that…

— Thomas Jefferson

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would…

— Thomas Jefferson

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its…

— Thomas Jefferson

We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the…

— Thomas Jefferson