Patriotism Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country.

— Thomas Jefferson

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

— Thomas Jefferson

The merchant has no country .

— Thomas Jefferson

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. [Misattributed]

— Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

— Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain

— Thomas Jefferson

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

— Thomas Jefferson

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is a subject with which wisdom and patriotism should be occupied.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not…

— Thomas Jefferson

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is…

— Thomas Jefferson

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance…

— Thomas Jefferson

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on…

— Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it…

— Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but…

— Thomas Jefferson

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to…

— 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

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that…

— Thomas Jefferson

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect…

— Thomas Jefferson

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent…

— Thomas Jefferson

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance…

— Thomas Jefferson

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all…

— Thomas Jefferson

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…

— Thomas Jefferson

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance…

— Thomas Jefferson

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother…

— Thomas Jefferson

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit…

— Thomas Jefferson

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and…

— Thomas Jefferson