Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
- Thomas Jefferson
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
- Thomas Jefferson
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
- Thomas Jefferson
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
- Thomas Jefferson
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
- Thomas Jefferson