Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
- Thomas Jefferson
If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never suffer a thought to be harbored in your mind which you would not avow openly. When tempted to do anything in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public. If you would not, be sure it is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps an editor might...divide his paper into four chapters, heading the first, Truths; 2d, Probabilities; 3d Possibilities; 4, Lies.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sensibility of the mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
- Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this Union is the heart blood of every American.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
