All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. Government
- It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and… Better
- During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they… Assuredly
- One insult pocketed soon produces another. Inspirational
- It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. Condition
- The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it. Catchy
- The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a… Bold
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what… Blood
- With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of… All
- To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. Beyond
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… Acts
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… Ancestor
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes… Accompany
- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human… Duties
- The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… Dread
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings… American
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… Act
- Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity Achievement
- I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full… Environmental
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in… Age
- Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the… Book
- It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too… Axiom
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. America
- A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price… Gambling
- Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. Ge