Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
- Thomas Jefferson
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
- Thomas Jefferson
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
- Thomas Jefferson
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
- Thomas Jefferson
A 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
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
- Thomas Jefferson
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson