Quotes about Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

#Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

#Thomas Jefferson

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

#Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

#Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

#Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

#Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and...

#Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power...

#Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I...

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves...

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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,...

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

#Thomas Jefferson