All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. Inspirational
- Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Abolish
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. All
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Conservative
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Good
- No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. Censors
- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become… America
- I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Cause
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Blood
- The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Glow
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Act
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Army
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of… Bread
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental… Achieve
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Accountability
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Anti War
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by… Aristocracy
- A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body,… Advise
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of… Arrangement
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into… Best
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good… All
- No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. Arms
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Bill
- To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Abhors
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars… Acted