Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
- Thomas Jefferson
He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Resisting tyranny is obeying God.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson