Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
- Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
- Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
- Thomas Jefferson
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- Thomas Jefferson
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
- Thomas Jefferson
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
- Thomas Jefferson