Thomas Jefferson's Quotes

Thomas Jefferson's Quotes 261

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who...

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will...

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in...

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his...

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will...

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the...

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and...

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only...

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of...

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope...

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