Thomas Jefferson Quotes

American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Thomas Jefferson

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

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