Quotes Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it...

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of ...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from...

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile ...

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of pr...

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the...

Information is the currency of democracy....

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for h...

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty...

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to bel...

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Tru...

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must ...

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as ...

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be pun...

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occup...

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it sha...

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their o...

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which a...

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people....

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every i...

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffera...

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does ...

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized ...

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a su...

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government ...