All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor… Accountability
- On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the… Aromatic
- Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Alone
- If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, American
- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. Eat
- And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light… Barbarism
- Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. Acquire
- The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our… Afflict
- The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights All
- He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to… Adult
- The hole and the patch should be commensurate. Commensurate
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an… Action
- Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. Forced
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it… All
- It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. Concentration
- The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles. Different Houses
- I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. Aristocracy
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Agents
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… Ancestor
- Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . Absurdities
- It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one… Believe
- The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office,… Annexed
- That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… American Revolution
- Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of… Aim
- To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or… Attempting