Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.
- Thomas Jefferson
Connecticut in her blue-laws, laying it down as a principle, that the laws of God should be the law of the land.
- Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
How much have cost us the evils that never happened!
- Thomas Jefferson
I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretense of governing, they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.
- Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson
I must ever believe that religion substantially good which produces an honest life, and we have been authorized by one whom you and I equally respect, to judge of the tree by its fruit.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have ever judged of others' religion by their lives...for it is from our lives and not from our words, that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
