Thomas Jefferson Quotes And Sayings

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“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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

“I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
– 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

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Delay is preferable to error.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Man, like the fruit he eats, has his period of ripeness. Like that, too, if he continues longer hanging to the stem, it is but an useless and unsightly appendage.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Our duty is to act upon things as they are, and to make a reasonable provision for whatever they may be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The uniform tenor of a man’s life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Conscience is the only clue which will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It is necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad”
– Thomas Jefferson

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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