All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- ...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. All
- The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Cease
- Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Cold
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the… Administer
- When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. Atheist
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself Inspirational
- Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. Difference
- There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. Education
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Best
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to… All
- And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,… Declaration
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .… Armed
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be… Brain
- Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. Atheism
- The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Amendment
- Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. American Revolution
- [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of… Advance
- The dead should not rule the living Dead
- I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. All
- Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. Civil
- We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. Another Church
- A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. Beauty
- My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! America
- Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Chosen
- I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. Amusement