2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it...

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.