If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: God Quotes

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow...

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good...

It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good...

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I cannot live without books.

I cannot live without books.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people...

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people...

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves...

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves...

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to...

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to...

Living is something everyone can do, but few actually experience

Living is something everyone can do, but few actually experience

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which...

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.