World Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

— Thomas Jefferson

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

— Thomas Jefferson

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

— Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Bible makes the best people in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

— Thomas Jefferson

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have…

— Thomas Jefferson

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save…

— Thomas Jefferson

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now…

— Thomas Jefferson

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

— 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

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining…

— Thomas Jefferson

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,…

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as…

— Thomas Jefferson

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed…

— Thomas Jefferson

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,…

— 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

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

— Thomas Jefferson

All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as…

— Thomas Jefferson

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other…

— Thomas Jefferson