Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for...

#Prudence

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with...

#Politics

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people...

#Politics

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable...

#Reason

No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into...

#Reputation

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

#Right

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not...

#Right

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

#Responsibility

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the...

#Slavery

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

#Talent, #Words

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

#Nations, #Society

The merchant has no country

#Trade