2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.