2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.