Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826) was the third president of the United States (1801–1809), author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), a political philosopher, and one of the most influential founders of the United States.

Found 184 thoughts of Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Thomas Jefferson

The order of nature is that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

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 blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

Thomas Jefferson

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas Jefferson

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

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

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

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

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Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The order of nature is that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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 blind-folded fear.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

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

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.

I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

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.