2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.