Men Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

— Thomas Jefferson

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

— Thomas Jefferson

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

— Thomas Jefferson

All men are created equal.

— Thomas Jefferson

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

— Thomas Jefferson

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

— Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

— Thomas Jefferson

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

— Thomas Jefferson

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

— Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

— Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

— Thomas Jefferson

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

— Thomas Jefferson

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to…

— Thomas Jefferson

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a…

— Thomas Jefferson

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny

— Thomas Jefferson

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by…

— Thomas Jefferson

[My] pillar of support through life… I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer…

— Thomas Jefferson

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick…

— Thomas Jefferson

The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by…

— Thomas Jefferson

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate…

— Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short…

— Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…

— Thomas Jefferson

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— 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

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as…

— Thomas Jefferson

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…

— Thomas Jefferson

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson