All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. Bed
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage Alcohol
- I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. Become Common
- The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. Any
- Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. Evil
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to… Better
- May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. Affair
- I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Acute
- Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. Bind
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… Any
- Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… Boisterous
- The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. Air
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. Been
- The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man Been
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… Artificial
- Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. Error
- The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Architecture
- History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. Apprising
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… All
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… Advanced
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… Act
- I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you… Advocates
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting… Amendment
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… Age
- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy]. Advocate