Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A...

#Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

#Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than...

#Thomas Jefferson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

#Thomas Jefferson

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

#Thomas Jefferson

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

#Thomas Jefferson

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

#Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by...

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

#Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the...

#Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

#Thomas Jefferson