More Thomas Jefferson Quotes

1. ...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say the ...
   
2. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the spe ...
   
3. Advertisements... contain the only truths to be re ...
   
4. All authority belongs to the people. ...
   
5. An association of men who will not quarrel with on ...
   
6. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise ...
   
7. Banking establishments are more dangerous than sta ...
   
8. Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ...
   
9. Believing with you that religion is a matter which ...
   
10. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, ...
    
11. Delay is preferable to error. ...
    
12. Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rig ...
    
13. Determine never to be idle. No person will have oc ...
    
14. Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how m ...
    
15. Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. ...
    
16. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know ...
    
17. Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and o ...
    
18. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is ...
    
19. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the ca ...
    
20. Every man has two countries his own and France. ...
    
21. Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but ...
    
22. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without ...
    
23. He is happiest of whom the world says least, good ...
    
24. Health is worth more than learning. ...
    
25. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom ...
    
26. How much pain have cost us the evils which have ne ...
    
27. I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuv ...
    
28. I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the ...
    
29. I cannot live without books. ...
    
30. I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a m ...
    
31. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I see ...
    
32. I have never been able to conceive how any rationa ...
    
33. I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful ...
    
34. I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see ...
    
35. I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostil ...
    
36. I have the consolation of having added nothing to ...
    
37. I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, ...
    
38. I like the dreams of the future better than the hi ...
    
39. I live for books. ...
    
40. I predict future happiness for Americans if they c ...
    
41. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that ...
    
42. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fea ...
    
43. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences at ...
    
44. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harde ...
    
45. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether ...
    
46. If people let government decide what foods they ea ...
    
47. Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less r ...
    
48. In matters of style, swim with the current in matt ...
    
49. Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect th ...
    
50. Information is the currency of democracy. ...
    
51. Is it the Fourth? ...
    
52. It is error alone which needs the support of gover ...
    
53. It is in our lives and not our words that our reli ...
    
54. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility ...
    
55. It is part of the American character to consider n ...
    
56. Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it ...
    
57. My only fear is that I may live too long. This wou ...
    
58. My theory has always been, that if we are to dream ...
    
59. My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolit ...
    
60. Never buy what you do not want, because it is chea ...
    
61. Never enter into dispute or argument with another. ...
    
62. Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifi ...
    
63. Never spend your money before you have it. ...
    
64. Never trouble another for what you can do for your ...
    
65. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms ...
    
66. No government ought to be without censors & where ...
    
67. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the r ...
    
68. No more good must be attempted than the people can ...
    
69. No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. ...
    
70. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental att ...
    
71. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over an ...
    
72. One man with courage is a majority. ...
    
73. Our friendships are precious, not only in the shad ...
    
74. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press an ...
    
75. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wises ...
    
76. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nat ...
    
77. Question with boldness even the existence of a God ...
    
78. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual age ...
    
79. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ...
    
80. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and ...
    
81. Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, und ...
    
82. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious ...
    
83. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted wi ...
    
84. That government is best which governs the least, b ...
    
85. The advertisement is the most truthful part of a n ...
    
86. The basis of our government being the opinion of t ...
    
87. The beauty of the second amendment is that it will ...
    
88. The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. ...
    
89. The day will come when the mystical generation of ...
    
90. The democracy will cease to exist when you take aw ...
    
91. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the s ...
    
92. The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the sp ...
    
93. The happiest moments of my life have a been the fe ...
    
94. The legitimate powers of government extend to such ...
    
95. The man who reads nothing at all is better educate ...
    
96. The most valuable of all talents is that of never ...
    
97. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ...
    
98. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, ...
    
99. The spirit of resistance to government is so valua ...
    
100. The strongest reason for the people to retain the ...
     
101. The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both ...
     
102. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to ...
     
103. The will of the people is the only legitimate foun ...
     
104. There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grou ...
     
105. There is nothing more unequal, than the equal trea ...
     
106. This institution will be based upon the illimitabl ...
     
107. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate y ...
     
108. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it ...
     
109. We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable t ...
     
110. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all ...
     
111. We in America do not have government by the majori ...
     
112. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual ...
     
113. We never regret having eaten too little. ...
     
114. Were it left to me to decide whether we should hav ...
     
115. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consi ...
     
116. When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a ...
     
117. When angry, count ten before you speak if very ang ...
     
118. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in ...
     
119. Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, ...
     
120. Whenever any form of government becomes destructiv ...
     
121. Whenever the people are well informed, they can be ...
     
122. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can neve ...