2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.