All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Believe
- Be polite to all, but intimate with few. All
- It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Action
- One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Alone
- It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. Always Better
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Church
- An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. Believe
- I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of… Act
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. American Revolution
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Atheism
- I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Ambition
- How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. Cost
- I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. Abhor
- I cannot live without books. Beer
- Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Combat
- No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. Carried
- Delay is preferable to error. Delay
- Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Act
- Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. Church
- The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. Advertisement
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. Bears
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. Drinking
- Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. Inherent
- The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. Adverse
- The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. Disputes