Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it...

#Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

#Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it...

#Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending...

#Thomas Jefferson

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow...

#Thomas Jefferson

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or...

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less...

#Thomas Jefferson

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

#Thomas Jefferson

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may...

#Thomas Jefferson

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed...

#Thomas Jefferson