Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.

For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.

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.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

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

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.