2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.