How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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