2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.