All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. Ghost
- It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… Bear
- The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… Abused
- Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned… Abandoned
- That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a… Abuse
- How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! All
- Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose… Better
- When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. Abundance
- And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… Adornments
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… Always Coming
- The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. Cures
- Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… Action
- The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. Higher
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… Aloof
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… Appeal
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… Authority
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Alone
- It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. Americans
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… Ask
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… Act
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,… Cause
- The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I. Appointment
- Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great… Absurdities
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. Funny
- I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old. Favor