Thomas Jefferson Quotes



       “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson

        “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

       “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “A room without books is like a life without meaning.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.” 
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       “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “I cannot live without books.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “One man with courage is a majority.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “Every Generation Needs a New Revolution” 
- Thomas Jefferson


       “The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants .” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” 
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        “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

       “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

        “An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

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

       “Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.” 
- Thomas Jefferson