Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...

#Thomas Jefferson

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

#Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of...

#Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

#Thomas Jefferson

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a...

#Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

#Credulity

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

#Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the...

#Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads...

#Thomas Jefferson

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves...

#Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

#Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

#Thomas Jefferson