Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
- Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
- Thomas Jefferson
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
- Thomas Jefferson
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- Thomas Jefferson
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
- Thomas Jefferson
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
- Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson