Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- Thomas Jefferson
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
- Thomas Jefferson
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
- Thomas Jefferson
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
- Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
- Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
- Thomas Jefferson
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
- 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.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson