2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.