Mankind Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

— Thomas Jefferson

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

— Thomas Jefferson

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

— Thomas Jefferson

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

— Thomas Jefferson

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

— Thomas Jefferson

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are…

— Thomas Jefferson

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect…

— Thomas Jefferson

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without…

— Thomas Jefferson

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even…

— Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to…

— Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation…

— Thomas Jefferson

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance…

— Thomas Jefferson

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— Thomas Jefferson

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without…

— 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

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection…

— Thomas Jefferson

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting…

— Thomas Jefferson

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them…

— Thomas Jefferson

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…

— Thomas Jefferson

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights…

— Thomas Jefferson

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

— Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

— Thomas Jefferson

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or…

— Thomas Jefferson

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question…

— Thomas Jefferson

We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties…

— Thomas Jefferson

But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I…

— Thomas Jefferson

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery…

— Thomas Jefferson