2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

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

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

I see students all over and around the building. It looks nothing like a school. It looks like a country club.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven...

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.