All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- I like to see the people awake and alert. Alert
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… Accomplishment
- Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy. Happy
- I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. Inspirational
- To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. Effort
- Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they… Educate
- Tranquility is the old man's milk. Age
- Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Bread
- All authority belongs to the people. All
- Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. Acts
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… Abilities
- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Art
- This is the fourth... Famous Love
- It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. Always Prevail
- [The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. Guardian
- Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. Divided
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… Accidental
- A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Genuine
- The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,… Backs
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… Affection
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not… Arms
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to… Administration
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… Almost Prepared
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government
- Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of… Abundance