All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Both
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… Art
- Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no… Body
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… Among
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… Add
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set… Aristocracy
- An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. Individual
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… Abetting
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there… Agricultural
- Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. Inspirational
- Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through… Advancing
- [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. Any
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… All
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the… All
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… Assumed
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a… Ancestor
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives… Duties
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education… Bases
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. From
- Without virtue, happiness cannot be. Happiness
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural… Declare
- Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. Acts
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely… Active
- I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. Believe
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we… Atlantic