2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone.

This is the fourth?[Last words]

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life...

NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY

The president’s title as proposed by the senate was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of. It is a proof the more of the justice of the character given by Doctr. Franklin of my friend [John Adams]: ‘Always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes absolutely mad'.