Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
- Thomas Jefferson
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- Thomas Jefferson
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
- Thomas Jefferson
Health is value greater than studying.
- Thomas Jefferson