Famous Quotes / Thomas Jefferson
195 Quotations by Thomas Jefferson
- 121. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- 122. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
- 123. Resort is hard to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- 124. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to ...
- 125. Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix re ...
- 126. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the coven ...
- 127. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trus ...
- 128. Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
- 129. Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- 130. Taste cannot be controlled by law.
- 131. That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- 132. That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- 133. That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- 134. The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
- 135. The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
- 136. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the ro ...
- 137. The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
- 138. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob ...
- 139. The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener ...
- 140. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin ...