All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold. Alone
- A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. Book
- It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour Everything Yield
- The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man. Excellence
- No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery… Bring
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the… Army
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in… Abjuring
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… All
- Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. Confidence
- No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. Cheap
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… Among
- Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. Choose
- We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . Discover
- No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. Any
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… Afraid
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. Bane
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. Christianity
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. Funny
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… All
- All men are created equal. All
- Of all exercises, walking is the best. All
- All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the… All
- No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him… Always Appear
- Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest… Certainly One
- I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. Breaking