Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Thomas Jefferson
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
- Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
- Thomas Jefferson
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
- Thomas Jefferson
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
- Thomas Jefferson
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson