Quotes Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to k...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with...

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice o...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual e...

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gaine...

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of thi...

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to m...

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish ...

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous se...

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of idea...

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation ...

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the gen...

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important...

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to...

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing ...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to libe...

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest....

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are cr...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a...

We never repent of having eaten too little....

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a govern...

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself...

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, cou...

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hu...

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; whe...