All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Dangerous
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common… Among
- I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,… All
- Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. Attachment
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility… Adore
- The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent… Blood
- Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the… All
- This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened… Ball
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our… Agency
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every… Attachment
- It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no… Asserted
- The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on… American
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… Brother
- The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. All
- Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I… All
- He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas… All
- Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. Book
- Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. Acquire
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of… Act
- Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only… Any
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… All
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their… Any
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into… Calculation
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… Action
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done… Children