--- title: "26 Judging Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "26 Judging quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Judging sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/thomas-jefferson-43_bigots_knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-g_407943.jpg" --- > [Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-grosser-bigots-than-law-i/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/thomas-jefferson-43_bigots_knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-g_407943.jpg) > [History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/history-teaches-the-young-the-virtues-of-freedom-by-apprising-them-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/thomas-jefferson-43_freedom_history-teaches-the-young-the-virtues-of_2945932.jpg) > [ One single object . . . \[will merit\] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/one-single-object-will-merit-the-endless-gratitude-of-the-society/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/thomas-jefferson-43_endless_one-single-object-will-merit-the-endless_340610.jpg) > [The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-juries-are-our-judges-of-all-fact-and-of-law-when-they-choose-it/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/thomas-jefferson-43_constitution_the-juries-are-our-judges-of-all-fact-an_2774651.jpg) > [For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/for-heaven-s-sake-discard-the-monstrous-wig-which-makes-the-english/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/thomas-jefferson-43_bunch_for-heaven-s-sake-discard-the-monstrous_1259660.jpg) > [The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-government-created-by-this-compact-was-not-made-the-exclusive-or/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/thomas-jefferson-43_compact_the-government-created-by-this-compact-w_3046346.jpg) > [If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-once-the-people-become-inattentive-to-the-public-affairs-you-and-i/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/thomas-jefferson-43_affair_if-once-the-people-become-inattentive-to_1613579.jpg) > [I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-enclose-to-you-a-copy-of-the-declaration-of-independence-as-agreed/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cea/thomas-jefferson-43_copies_i-enclose-to-you-a-copy-of-the-declarati_2651417.jpg) > [The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-objects-of-this-primary-education-would-be-to-form-the-statesmen/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/673/thomas-jefferson-43_depends_the-objects-of-this-primary-education-wo_1333725.jpg) > [ If the question \[before justices of the peace\] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-the-question-before-justices-of-the-peace-relate-to-any-point-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/thomas-jefferson-43_bias_if-the-question-before-justices-of-the-p_982924.jpg) > [Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-judges-are-as-honest-as-other-men-and-not-more-so-they-have-with/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2be/thomas-jefferson-43_constitution_our-judges-are-as-honest-as-other-men-an_837881.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) > [It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-has-been-thought-that-the-people-are-not-competent-electors-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/thomas-jefferson-43_being-true_it-has-been-thought-that-the-people-are_1787793.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) > [The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-question-whether-the-judges-are-invested-with-exclusive-authority/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/thomas-jefferson-43_authority_the-question-whether-the-judges-are-inve_2683748.jpg) > [The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-whole-body-of-the-nation-is-the-sovereign-legislative-judiciary/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ae/thomas-jefferson-43_body_the-whole-body-of-the-nation-is-the-sove_1428349.jpg) > [As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/as-for-the-safety-of-society-we-commit-honest-maniacs-to-bedlam-so/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/329/thomas-jefferson-43_benches_as-for-the-safety-of-society-we-commit-h_274467.jpg) > [I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-indeed-two-great-measures-at-heart-without-which-no-republic/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/thomas-jefferson-43_children_i-have-indeed-two-great-measures-at-hear_2520473.jpg) > [No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/no-person-shall-be-restrained-of-his-liberty-but-by-regular-process/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e7/thomas-jefferson-43_being-responsible_no-person-shall-be-restrained-of-his-lib_1150671.jpg) > [In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-the-legislature-the-house-of-representatives-is-chosen-by-less/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/thomas-jefferson-43_choices_in-the-legislature-the-house-of-represen_2918977.jpg) > [It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-left-to-the-juries-if-they-think-the-permanent-judges-are-under/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/thomas-jefferson-43_bias_it-is-left-to-the-juries-if-they-think-t_2324017.jpg) > [To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-consider-judges-as-the-ultimate-arbiters-of-all-constitutional/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/thomas-jefferson-43_arbiter_to-consider-judges-as-the-ultimate-arbit_1765439.jpg) > [Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/laws-proportionate-and-mild-should-never-be-dispensed-with-let-mercy/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/thomas-jefferson-43_character_laws-proportionate-and-mild-should-never_2763131.jpg) > [The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-best-remedy-i-can-devise-would-be-to-give-future-commissions-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e00/thomas-jefferson-43_enough_the-best-remedy-i-can-devise-would-be-to_287897.jpg) > [ History by apprising them \[the people\] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/history-by-apprising-them-the-people-of-the-past-will-enable-them-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f41/thomas-jefferson-43_action_history-by-apprising-them-the-people-of_1568717.jpg) > [That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/that-the-several-states-who-formed-that-instrument-being-sovereign/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b07/thomas-jefferson-43_colour_that-the-several-states-who-formed-that_2168999.jpg) ## Other authors on Judging ## 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/judging/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "26 Judging Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 26, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-grosser-bigots-than-law-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/thomas-jefferson-43_bigots_knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-g_407943.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/thomas-jefferson-43_bigots_knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-g_407943.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/thomas-jefferson-43_bigots_knowing-that-religion-does-not-furnish-g_407943.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. 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