2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just