thomas jefferson Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson | 13 April 1743 | 4 July 1826 | American | Anthony Haswell, Peter Jefferson | Jane Randolph Jefferson | Planter, Architect, Philosopher, Drafter, Author, Archaeologist, Statesman, Diplomat, Farmer, Lawyer, Teacher, Inventor | American Founding Father, who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence(1776), he was second Vice President of the United States(1797-1801) and in 1800 the third President (1801-09). |
A list of popular thomas jefferson quotes are given below.
"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
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led." - 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
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - 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
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another." - Thomas Jefferson
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed." - Thomas Jefferson
"We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy." - Thomas Jefferson
"I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor." - Thomas Jefferson
"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost." - Thomas Jefferson
"They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live." - Thomas Jefferson
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial." - Thomas Jefferson