Thomas
Jefferson Quotes

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- Thomas Jefferson

If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
- Thomas Jefferson

Of the various executive duties, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfill.
- Thomas Jefferson

Few die and none resign.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
- Thomas Jefferson

The whole of government consists in the art of being honest.
- Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
- Thomas Jefferson