Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

#God

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion....

#God

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has...

#Life

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

#Life

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and...

#Destruction, #Life

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they...

#Life

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more...

#Hard Work

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

#Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

#Friendship

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of...

#Friendship

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may...

#Friendship

What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and...

#Religion