2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I like to see the people awake and alert.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Merchants have no country.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope...

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.