Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSON






