Quotes Thomas Jefferson

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to...

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are ...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions ...

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free...

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with th...

Every generation needs a new revolution....

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of t...

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of gov...

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal ever...

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well...

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despoti...

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the foll...

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind....

He who knows best knows how little he knows....

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mi...

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government ...

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom....

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never ...

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind....

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) ...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of Amer...

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good...

I cannot live without books....

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature...