Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

#Economics

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

#Economics, #Government

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of...

#Ethics

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

#Example

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

#Excellence

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their...

#Food, #Medicine

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

#Law And Lawyers, #Religion, #frredom

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

#Force

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

#Flattery

Every generation needs a new revolution.

#Generations, #Revolution

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

#Honesty, #Wisdom

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

#Honor