Thomas Jefferson Quotes
+7Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
+6When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson
+3Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Of all exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Every generation needs a new revolution.
— Thomas Jefferson
