Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
...for it is from our lives and not from our words, that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a few favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
- Thomas Jefferson
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard must about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures, and agriculture.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blest is that Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
- Thomas Jefferson
General Washington set the example of voluntary retirement after eight years. I shall follow it. And a few more precedents will oppose the obstacle of habit to any one who after a while shall endeavor to extend his term.
- Thomas Jefferson
He errs as other men do, but errs with integrity.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politeness is artificial good humor; it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
