The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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 -
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Take things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON






