2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.