--- title: "25 Left Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "25 Left quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Left sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/thomas-jefferson-43_has-beens_one-never-really-knows-how-much-one-has_1336689.jpg" --- > [One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/one-never-really-knows-how-much-one-has-been-touched-by-a-place-until/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/thomas-jefferson-43_has-beens_one-never-really-knows-how-much-one-has_1336689.jpg) > [ The merchants will manage \[commerce\] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-merchants-will-manage-commerce-the-better-the-more-they-are-left/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62f/thomas-jefferson-43_business_the-merchants-will-manage-commerce-the-b_1760667.jpg) > [Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shift-for-herself/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f62/thomas-jefferson-43_enough_truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shi_702758.jpg) > [Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/errors-of-opinion-may-be-tolerated-where-reason-is-left-free-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e8/thomas-jefferson-43_combat_errors-of-opinion-may-be-tolerated-where_857291.jpg) > [Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/agriculture-manufactures-commerce-and-navigation-the-four-pillars-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9c/thomas-jefferson-43_agriculture_agriculture-manufactures-commerce-and-na_2979372.jpg) > [This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/this-institution-will-be-based-on-the-illimitable-freedom-of-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce6/thomas-jefferson-43_combat_this-institution-will-be-based-on-the-il_704258.jpg) > [I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-have-so-much-confidence-in-the-good-sense-of-man-and-his/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/thomas-jefferson-43_confidence_i-have-so-much-confidence-in-the-good-se_1361689.jpg) > [Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-part-is-to-pursue-with-steadiness-what-is-right-turning-neither/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/thomas-jefferson-43_assured_our-part-is-to-pursue-with-steadiness-wh_3209811.jpg) > [Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/our-constitution-has-not-left-the-religion-of-its-citizens-under-the/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/thomas-jefferson-43_atheism_our-constitution-has-not-left-the-religi_2848749.jpg) > [Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/were-it-left-to-me-to-decide-whether-we-should-have-a-government/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60d/thomas-jefferson-43_capable_were-it-left-to-me-to-decide-whether-we_100931.jpg) > [Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shift-for-herself-she-seldom-has/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8f/thomas-jefferson-43_aids_truth-will-do-well-enough-if-left-to-shi_444710.jpg) > [The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-art-of-reasoning-becomes-of-first-importance-in-this-line/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/thomas-jefferson-43_amplification_the-art-of-reasoning-becomes-of-first-im_759202.jpg) > [A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-departure-from-principle-in-one-instance-becomes-a-precedent-for-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/thomas-jefferson-43_adversity_a-departure-from-principle-in-one-instan_631276.jpg) > [ The system of banking have\[for\]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-system-of-banking-have-for-ever-reprobated-i-contemplate-it-as-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/thomas-jefferson-43_banking_the-system-of-banking-have-for-ever-repr_402738.jpg) > [The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-basis-of-our-governments-being-the-opinion-of-the-people-the-very/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/thomas-jefferson-43_bases_the-basis-of-our-governments-being-the-o_2306706.jpg) > [ The evidence of \[the\] natural right \[of expatriation\], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-evidence-of-the-natural-right-of-expatriation-like-that-of-our/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad1/thomas-jefferson-43_charter_the-evidence-of-the-natural-right-of-exp_2308565.jpg) > [Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/up-until-the-late-unpleasantness-of-the-civil-war-then-the-right-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/994/thomas-jefferson-43_amendments_up-until-the-late-unpleasantness-of-the_121661.jpg) > [The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-office-of-reformer-of-the-superstitions-of-a-nation-is-ever-more/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/thomas-jefferson-43_abraham_the-office-of-reformer-of-the-superstiti_2799001.jpg) > [The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-true-theory-of-our-constitution-is-surely-the-wisest-and-best/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bd/thomas-jefferson-43_affair_the-true-theory-of-our-constitution-is-s_879598.jpg) > [ If \[God\] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-god-has-made-it-a-law-in-the-nature-of-man-to-pursue-his-own/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/thomas-jefferson-43_body_if-god-has-made-it-a-law-in-the-nature-o_2482448.jpg) > [We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-abhor-the-follies-of-war-and-are-not-untried-in-its-distresses-and/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/thomas-jefferson-43_affair_we-abhor-the-follies-of-war-and-are-not_3029311.jpg) > [That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/that-this-privilege-of-giving-or-of-withholding-our-monies-is-an/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/thomas-jefferson-43_barriers_that-this-privilege-of-giving-or-of-with_2454734.jpg) > [If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/if-there-be-any-among-us-who-wish-to-dissolve-the-union-or-to-change/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/thomas-jefferson-43_change_if-there-be-any-among-us-who-wish-to-dis_1101531.jpg) > [In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/in-matters-of-religion-i-have-considered-that-its-free-exercise-is/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/928/thomas-jefferson-43_authority_in-matters-of-religion-i-have-considered_2300878.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) ## Other authors on Left ## 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/left/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "25 Left Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has 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