Thomas Jefferson Quotes

If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

By Thomas Jefferson

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither.

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

By Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

By Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

By Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

By Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

By Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

By Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

By Thomas Jefferson

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

By Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred.

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

By Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

By Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property

By Thomas Jefferson

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

By Thomas Jefferson

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

By Thomas Jefferson

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.

By Thomas Jefferson

We never regret having eaten too little.

By Thomas Jefferson

We never repent of having eaten too little.

By Thomas Jefferson

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

By Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By Thomas Jefferson

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

By Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar

By Thomas Jefferson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

By Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

By Thomas Jefferson