All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,… Active
- If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else. Bigotry
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may… Afraid
- What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as… Chair
- Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word. Cross
- It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on… All
- I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two… Chair
- Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to… Amusement
- If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven… All
- It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent. Certain
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence… Attributes
- The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. Association
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated… Associated
- It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. Cannot Exist
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe… Among
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. Adaptation
- Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… All
- Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing… Change
- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other… Answer
- The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others. Comprehend
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… Bees
- Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. Devices
- Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency. Anarchy
- We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. Finally
- We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is… Continually