195 Quotations by Thomas Jefferson
- 41. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the ...

- 42. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

- 43. I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution ...

- 44. I cannot live without books.

- 45. I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that the ...

- 46. I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable proposes; a ...

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

- 48. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- 49. I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m ...

- 50. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from ou ...

- 51. I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th ...

- 52. I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause ...

- 53. I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

- 54. I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

- 55. I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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

- 57. I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and o ...

- 58. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater ...

- 59. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

- 60. I live for books.

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