Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].
Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
Thomas Jefferson
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
Thomas Jefferson
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Thomas Jefferson
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Equal rights for all special privileges for none.
Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson