2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.