All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what… All
- History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as… Action
- I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Astern
- The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats… All
- If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. All
- You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be… Always Kept
- Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. Government
- Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. Bank
- The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. Banking
- We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Debt
- Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus. Corrupter
- I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a… Any
- Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships… Abundance
- Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours. Cleanliness
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,… Constitution
- We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. Each
- A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean England
- I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of… All
- It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Action
- No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. Contract
- Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.... Companion
- Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to… All
- Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear. Beget
- For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.... Afraid
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation… Algebra