Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
They (academies) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated form industrious pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science.
- Thomas Jefferson
We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government. I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the later.
- Thomas Jefferson
Were it made a question whether no law, as among the savage Americans, or too much law, as among the civilized Europeans, submits man to the greatest evil, one who has seen both conditions of existence would pronounce it to be the last; and that the sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
- Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
- Thomas Jefferson
An American coming to Europe for his education, loses in his knowledge, in his morals, in his health, in his habits, and in his happiness. I had entertained only doubts on this head before I came to Europe; what I see and hear, since I came here, proves more than I had even suspected.
- Thomas Jefferson
