Thomas Jefferson Quotes And Sayings

Resort Is Had To Ridicule Only When Reason Is Against Us.

Peace, Commerce And Honest Friendship With All Nations; Entangling Alliances With None.

Errors Of Opinion May Be Tolerated Where Reason Is Left Free To Combat It.

The Boisterous Sea Of Liberty Is Never Without A Wave.

The Creator Has Not Thought Proper To Mark Those In The Forehead Who Are Of Stuff To Make Good Generals. We Are First, Therefore, To Seek Them Blindfold, And Then Let Them Learn The Trade At The Expense Of Great Losses.

The Whole Commerce Between Master And Slave Is A Perpetual Exercise Of The Most Boisterous Passions, The Most Unremitting Despotism On The One Part, And Degrading Submissions On The Other. Our Children See This, And Learn To Imitate It.

A Bill Of Rights Is What The People Are Entitled To Against Every Government, And What No Just Government Should Refuse, Or Rest On Inference.

Speeches That Are Measured By The Hour Will Die With The Hour.

I Abhor War And View It As The Greatest Scourge Of Mankind.

Taste Cannot Be Controlled By Law.

If God Is Just, I Tremble For My Country.

Leave No Authority Existing Not Responsible To The People.

No Government Ought To Be Without Censors; And Where The Press Is Free No One Ever Will.

The Way To Silence Religious Disputes Is To Take No Notice Of Them.

Peace And Abstinence From European Interferences Are Our Objects, And So Will Continue While The Present Order Of Things In America Remain Uninterrupted.

It Takes Time To Persuade Men To Do Even What Is For Their Own Good.

But Friendship Is Precious, Not Only In The Shade, But In The Sunshine Of Life, And Thanks To A Benevolent Arrangement The Greater Part Of Life Is Sunshine.

I Find That He Is Happiest Of Whom The World Says Least, Good Or Bad.

Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson Author Of The Declaration Of American Independence Of The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom &Amp; Father Of The University Of Virginia.

I Have Done For My Country, And For All Mankind, All That I Could Do, And I Now Resign My Soul, Without Fear, To My God - My Daughter To My Country.

Where The Press Is Free And Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe.

My Only Fear Is That I May Live Too Long. This Would Be A Subject Of Dread To Me.

Ignorance Is Preferable To Error, And He Is Less Remote From The Truth Who Believes Nothing Than He Who Believes What Is Wrong.

Mankind Are More Disposed To Suffer, While Evils Are Sufferable, Than To Right Themselves By Abolishing The Forms To Which They Are Accustomed.

I Know Of No Safe Depository Of The Ultimate Powers Of The Society But The People Themselves; And If We Think Them Not Enlightened Enough To Exercise Their Control With A Wholesome Discretion, The Remedy Is Not To Take It From Them But To Inform Their Discretion.

Politics Is Such A Torment That I Advise Everyone I Love Not To Mix With It.

Whenever The People Are Well-informed, They Can Be Trusted With Their Own Government.

I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just; That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever.

Nothing Can Stop The Man With The Right Mental Attitude From Achieving His Goal; Nothing On Earth Can Help The Man With The Wrong Mental Attitude.

All, Too, Will Bear In Mind This Sacred Principle, That Though The Will Of The Majority Is In All Cases To Prevail, That Will To Be Rightful Must Be Reasonable; That The Minority Possess Their Equal Rights, Which Equal Law Must Protect, And To Violate Would Be Oppression.

Experience Demands That Man Is The Only Animal Which Devours His Own Kind, For I Can Apply No Milder Term To The General Prey Of The Rich On The Poor.

If A Nation Expects To Be Ignorant And Free, In A State Of Civilization, It Expects What Never Was And Never Will Be.

I Believe That Every Human Mind Feels Pleasure In Doing Good To Another.

No Freeman Shall Be Debarred The Use Of Arms.

I Hope We Shall Crush In Its Birth The Aristocracy Of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial By Strength, And Bid Defiance To The Laws Of Our Country.

The Spirit Of Resistance To Government Is So Valuable On Certain Occasions That I Wish It To Be Always Kept Alive.

Whenever A Man Has Cast A Longing Eye On Offices, A Rottenness Begins In His Conduct.

Every Citizen Should Be A Soldier. This Was The Case With The Greeks And Romans, And Must Be That Of Every Free State.

Dependence Begets Subservience And Venality, Suffocates The Germ Of Virtue, And Prepares Fit Tools For The Designs Of Ambition.

Our Greatest Happiness Does Not Depend On The Condition Of Life In Which Chance Has Placed Us, But Is Always The Result Of A Good Conscience, Good Health, Occupation, And Freedom In All Just Pursuits.

We Never Repent Of Having Eaten Too Little.

Bodily Decay Is Gloomy In Prospect, But Of All Human Contemplations The Most Abhorrent Is Body Without Mind.

For A People Who Are Free, And Who Mean To Remain So, A Well-organized And Armed Militia Is Their Best Security.

It Is Neither Wealth Nor Splendor; But Tranquility And Occupation Which Give You Happiness.

An Association Of Men Who Will Not Quarrel With One Another Is A Thing Which Has Never Yet Existed, From The Greatest Confederacy Of Nations Down To A Town Meeting Or A Vestry.

Difference Of Opinion Is Advantageous In Religion. The Several Sects Perform The Office Of A Censor - Over Each Other.

Question With Boldness Even The Existence Of A God; Because, If There Be One, He Must More Approve Of The Homage Of Reason, Than That Of Blind-folded Fear.

Happiness Is Not Being Pained In Body Or Troubled In Mind.

The Man Who Reads Nothing At All Is Better Educated Than The Man Who Reads Nothing But Newspapers.

I Never Considered A Difference Of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend.