Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Cannot, Taste

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

Give, Fail, Aim

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Enough, Wish

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Silence, Religious, Notice

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Opinion

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

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

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

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

Government, Himself, Feels

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

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

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson

Today, Tomorrow, Soldier

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Trying, Put, Place

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Successful, Seldom

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Bad, Find

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson

Reason, Against, Ridicule

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Glory, Conquest, Armies

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Wrong, Toward

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Human, Natural

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Natural, Virtue

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Opinion, Mankind

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Easy, Office

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13, 1743

Died: July 4, 1826

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