--- title: "6 Expected Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "6 Expected quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Expected sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/thomas-jefferson-43_business_that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-shoul_743544.jpg" --- > [That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-should-do-business-together-ought/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/thomas-jefferson-43_business_that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-shoul_743544.jpg) > [Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perfection-in-wisdom-as-well-as-in-integrity-is-neither-required-nor/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/thomas-jefferson-43_agents_perfection-in-wisdom-as-well-as-in-integ_1039959.jpg) > [If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-then-the-control-of-the-people-over-the-organs-of-their-government/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/thomas-jefferson-43_agents_if-then-the-control-of-the-people-over-t_1068404.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) > [ It astonishes me to find... \[that so many\] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-astonishes-me-to-find-that-so-many-of-our-countrymen-should-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/thomas-jefferson-43_army_it-astonishes-me-to-find-that-so-many-of_1421509.jpg) > [The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-expedition-of-messrs-lewis-clarke-for-exploring-the-river/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b4/thomas-jefferson-43_adventure_the-expedition-of-messrs-lewis-clarke-fo_2554763.jpg) ## Other authors on Expected ## 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/expected/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "6 Expected Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-should-do-business-together-ought/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/thomas-jefferson-43_business_that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-shoul_743544.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/thomas-jefferson-43_business_that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-shoul_743544.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/thomas-jefferson-43_business_that-one-hundred-and-fifty-lawyers-shoul_743544.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). 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