All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be… All
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Cities
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Accountability
- For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Armed
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Attitude
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that… Agnosticism
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that… All
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within… According
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of… Animal
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Closer
- Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how… Any
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Altar
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Alone
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. All
- Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Case
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Anger
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Advantage
- Never spend your money before you have earned it. Earned
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Abortion
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Begins
- One man with courage is a majority. Bravery
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Antiwar
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. All
- None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. All
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Alone