2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.