Quotes about Thomas Jefferson

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

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.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.