Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Opinion, Office

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, Wisdom, Jealous

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Dream, Despair

Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Minds, Pure

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson

Country, Spirit, Military

In truth, 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

Humor, Good, Truth

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Peace, Honest

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Human, Body

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Expect, Despotism

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Rights, Inherent

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wisdom, Done

Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Cannot, Taste

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

Fear, Live, Long

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

Give, Fail, Aim

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson

Love, Politics, Everyone

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

Everything, Philosophy, Moral

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson

Living, Dead, Earth

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

Earth, Culture, Garden

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas Jefferson

Die, Hour, Measured

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Nothing, American

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Free, Press

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Himself, Feels

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Sea, Wave

We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13, 1743

Died: July 4, 1826

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