Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just

You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I am not a Federalist because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever....Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living.

We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.

That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused.

I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.

I cannot live without my books -

No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I as chief Magistrate of this nation am bound to give it the sanction of my example. Good morning Sir. [Replying on his way to church one Sunday to a friend, who said to him "You going to church Mr. J. You do not believe a word in it."]

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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family

Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred

granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall

Postpone to the great object of Liberty every smaller motive and passion.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

Error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.

Those willing to accept the tranquility of servitude, had best be prepared to crouch to his knee's, and lick the hand that feeds him.

we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.