All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… Among
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… Art
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time… Contented
- Dependence leads to subservience. Dependence
- If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. Disobey
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… Age
- I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading. Chemical
- I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making… Applied
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… Affected
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… Attempt
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… Aids
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… British
- Freedom, the first-born of science. Born
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… Art
- Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Book
- The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that… Cause
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… Almighty
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… Advances
- We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation… Ears
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. Abolition
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people… Another Hemisphere
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… Action
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More… Arranged
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… All
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands… All