2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.