Thomas Jefferson Quotes

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."
-Thomas Jefferson in Body quotes.

"I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."
-Thomas Jefferson in Change quotes.

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
-Thomas Jefferson in Government quotes.

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
-Thomas Jefferson

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."
-Thomas Jefferson

"There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people."
-Thomas Jefferson

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
-Thomas Jefferson in War quotes.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-Thomas Jefferson in Freedom quotes.

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."
-Thomas Jefferson

"No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth."
-Thomas Jefferson in Language quotes.

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
-Thomas Jefferson

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
-Thomas Jefferson in Respect quotes.

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
-Thomas Jefferson in Laziness quotes.

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
-Thomas Jefferson

"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson in Mankind quotes.

"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson in Power quotes.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-Thomas Jefferson in Journalism quotes.

"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 approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences."
-Thomas Jefferson in Existence quotes.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for 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 in Atheism quotes.

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."
-Thomas Jefferson in Fear quotes.

"Never spend your money before you have it."
-Thomas Jefferson in Money quotes.

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
-Thomas Jefferson in Church quotes.

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."
-Thomas Jefferson in Constitution quotes.