Famous Quotes / Thomas Jefferson
195 Quotations by Thomas Jefferson
- 21. Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- 22. Difference of opinion is helpful in religion
- 23. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- 24. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like th ...
- 25. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- 26. Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- 27. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- 28. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of ...
- 29. Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder ...
- 30. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
- 31. Force cannot give right.
- 32. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o ...
- 33. Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life
- 34. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
- 35. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- 36. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t ...
- 37. Health is worth more than learning.
- 38. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- 39. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- 40. I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect ...