2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Is it the Fourth?

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

All is safe where all can read," is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further. I would say, "All is BETTER when all can read." No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.

History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." - Thomas Jefferson

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

[Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.