Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
There is comfort that the medal has two sides. There is much vice and misery in the world, I know; but more virtue and happiness, I believe.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever there is, in any country, uncultivated land and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far expended as to violate natural right.
- Thomas Jefferson
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war...I hope it is practicable, by improving he mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
A little attention to the nature of the human mind evinces that the entertainments of fiction are useful as well as pleasant...Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
By far the most important bill in our whole code, is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness. If anybody thinks that kings, nobles, priests are good conservators of the public happiness, send him here (to Europe).
- Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
