2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.