All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson
51% of people like this quote
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson in
History
51% of people like this quote
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
50% of people like this quote
Related authors