Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Honesty, Wisdom

  Tags in Book, Books
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  Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pacifism, Preparation

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

  Tags in Ground, Grow, Teach

• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Truth

• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Time, Always, Want, Wonderful, Person, Complain

• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Government, Stand, Needs

• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear, Knowledge, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Result, Reason

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Ambition, Truth

  Tags in Painful

• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Totally, Spirit, Military

• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Opinion, Heaven, Freedom, Thinking, Creed, Credo
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  If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Willing, Had
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  An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Injured

• Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, Liberty

• In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Age, Country, Funny

  Tags in Liberty

• Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advantage, Remain, Person, Circumstance

• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Learning, Book

• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lawyers, Book

• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Constitute, Professional, Often, Book

• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Eye, Begin

• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Moment, Decide

Thomas Jefferson (237)

Birth:	13th April, 1743
Death:	4th July, 1826
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Author, Lawyer, Planter, Politician, President, Principal

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