2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I love to see honest and honorable me at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses nor pursue measures by which they may profit and then profit by their measures.

It is probable that our difference of opinion may, in some measure, be produced by a difference of character in those among whom we live.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword: shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle—error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.