Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for...

#Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

#Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

#Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

#Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show...

#Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

#Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

#Thomas Jefferson

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which...

#Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

#Thomas Jefferson

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

#Thomas Jefferson