Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
“Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
“Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.”
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”
“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Politics ( Government)
“The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors in sinful and tyrannical.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow without power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save the one-half the wars of the world.”
“Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of people under the pretence of taking care of them, they might just become happy.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Education
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects to what never was and never will be.”
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”
“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.”
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Religion
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of Censor — over each other.”
“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
“If God is just, I tremble for my country.”
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.”
“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Life
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“Delay is preferable to error.”
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which never happened.”
“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.”
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the I have of it.”
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Revolution
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. – Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. – Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – Thomas Jefferson