2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights...namely the enjoyment of life and liberty...and pursuing and obtaining happiness.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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

May your nights and days be many and full of joy! May their fruit be such as to make you feel the sweet union of parent and lover, but not so many as that you may feel their weight! May they be handsome and good as their mother, wise and honest as their father, but more milky!

If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Your new condition will call for abundance of little sacrifices. But they will be greatly overpaid by the measure of affection they secure to you. The happiness of your life now depends on the continuing to please a single person. To this all other objects must be secondary.

Although a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.