Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
- Thomas Jefferson
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.
- Thomas Jefferson
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
- Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
- Thomas Jefferson
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
- Thomas Jefferson