Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
- Thomas Jefferson
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson