All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal. Abuse
- If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies… Accompanied
- I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… All
- Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? Administration
- I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I… All
- The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… Amplification
- We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. Citizens
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading… Bedlam
- The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Education
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? Bliss
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that… Belong
- It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific Frontier
- A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. Blooded
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in… Degenerate
- Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property… Acknowledged
- We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they… Any
- If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform. Acquiesce
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor… Becomes
- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .… Abhors
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… All
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially… Agree
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them. Among
- Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in… Boxes
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy… Able
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed… Accustomed