Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
The whole of government consists in the art of being honest.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
- Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the hard I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind...We might as well require a man to wear the coat that fitted him as a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their ancestors.
- Thomas Jefferson
