Thomas-jefferson Quotes

In 1778, Jefferson presented to the Virginia legislature "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of K...

...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither lib...

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res...

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionarie...

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them ...

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...