Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
- Thomas Jefferson
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.
- Thomas Jefferson
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
When Heaven has taken from us some object of our love, how sweet is it to have a bosom whereon to recline our heads, and into which we may pour the torrent of our tears! Grief, with such a comfort, is almost a luxury!
- Thomas Jefferson