--- title: "Best Giving Quotes by Thomas Jefferson" description: "63 Giving quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Giving sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg" --- > [ \[T\]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-the-right-to-decide-what-laws/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg) > [female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/female-education-has-occupied-my-attention-so-far-only-as-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/thomas-jefferson-43_attention_female-education-has-occupied-my-attenti_147109.jpg) > [We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-lay-it-down-as-a-fundamental-that-laws-to-be-just-must-give-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a8/thomas-jefferson-43_arbitrary_we-lay-it-down-as-a-fundamental-that-law_1745670.jpg) > [ If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country \[Virginia\] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-any-doubt-has-arisen-as-to-me-my-country-virginia-will-have-my/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/thomas-jefferson-43_country_if-any-doubt-has-arisen-as-to-me-my-coun_1434041.jpg) > [It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-should-be-our-endeavor-to-cultivate-the-peace-and-friendship-of-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ab/thomas-jefferson-43_asking_it-should-be-our-endeavor-to-cultivate-t_1513284.jpg) > [The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-christian-priesthood-finding-the-doctrines-of-christ-leveled-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95a/thomas-jefferson-43_artificial_the-christian-priesthood-finding-the-doc_1606504.jpg) > [A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-strong-body-makes-the-mind-strong-as-to-the-species-of-exercises-i/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/thomas-jefferson-43_advise_a-strong-body-makes-the-mind-strong-as-t_1545050.jpg) > [I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-had-rather-be-shut-up-in-a-very-modest-cottage-with-my-books-my/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad4/thomas-jefferson-43_book_i-had-rather-be-shut-up-in-a-very-modest_1561285.jpg) > [In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-truth-politeness-is-artificial-good-humor-it-covers-the-natural/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a5/thomas-jefferson-43_artificial_in-truth-politeness-is-artificial-good-h_2051140.jpg) > [To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-from-the-elementary-schools-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/thomas-jefferson-43_action_to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-fro_1410633.jpg) > [The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-construction-applied-to-those-parts-of-the-constitution-of-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc5/thomas-jefferson-43_congress_the-construction-applied-to-those-parts_1499098.jpg) > [A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-schism-has-taken-place-among-the-chemists-a-particular-set-of-them/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b78/thomas-jefferson-43_chemist_a-schism-has-taken-place-among-the-chemi_1242571.jpg) > [I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-sincerely-join-you-in-abjuring-all-political-connection-with-every/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/thomas-jefferson-43_alliances_i-sincerely-join-you-in-abjuring-all-pol_268274.jpg) > [France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/france-freed-from-that-monster-bonaparte-must-again-become-the-most/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/thomas-jefferson-43_bonaparte_france-freed-from-that-monster-bonaparte_1331184.jpg) > [He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/he-wove-those-three-threads-into-a-talk-ranging-from-annually/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/thomas-jefferson-43_adults_he-wove-those-three-threads-into-a-talk_733906.jpg) > [I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-love-peace-and-am-anxious-that-we-should-give-the-world-still/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/thomas-jefferson-43_anxious_i-love-peace-and-am-anxious-that-we-shou_389666.jpg) > [I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-been-happy-in-believing-that-whatever-follies-we-may-be-led/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d4/thomas-jefferson-43_anchors_i-have-been-happy-in-believing-that-what_1725182.jpg) > [We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-are-here-lounging-our-time-away-doing-nothing-and-having-nothing/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/thomas-jefferson-43_could-have-been_we-are-here-lounging-our-time-away-doing_2978308.jpg) > [ While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work \[Plato's Republic\], I laid it down often to ask… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/while-wading-through-the-whimsies-the-puerilities-and-unintelligible/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/thomas-jefferson-43_asks_while-wading-through-the-whimsies-the-pu_2513325.jpg) > [To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-compel-a-man-to-furnish-contributions-of-money-for-the-propagation/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/thomas-jefferson-43_church_to-compel-a-man-to-furnish-contributions_701464.jpg) > [Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/give-up-money-give-up-fame-give-up-science-give-the-earth-itself-and-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/thomas-jefferson-43_assured_give-up-money-give-up-fame-give-up-scien_163181.jpg) > [While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/while-the-principles-of-our-constitution-give-just-latitude-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/thomas-jefferson-43_citizens_while-the-principles-of-our-constitution_41186.jpg) > [Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/let-those-flatter-who-fear-it-is-not-an-american-art-to-give-praise/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/thomas-jefferson-43_art_let-those-flatter-who-fear-it-is-not-an_2159283.jpg) ## Other authors on Giving - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 162 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mother-teresa-69278.jpg) Mother Teresa 126 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/mother-teresa/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 112 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 112 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 97 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 91 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 88 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-meyer-53800.jpg) Joyce Meyer 82 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/joyce-meyer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/mahatma-gandhi/) ## 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/giving/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "Best Giving Quotes by Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-the-right-to-decide-what-laws/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... 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