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List of Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 1811 inspiring quotes by Thomas Jefferson.

About Thomas Jefferson

  • Born: April 13, 1743
  • Died: July 4, 1826
  • Occupation: 3rd U.S. President
    • For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
    ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.
    Education Math Squares
    Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
    Doubt Facts Begets
    A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
    Ocean Pirate Insulting
    If some period be not fixed, either by the constitution or by practice, to the services of the first magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
    Life Practice Office
    Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
    Sex Delicacy Want
    Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. they say the evil will cure itself. i wish it may; but i have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.
    Gambling Hands Evil
    The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.
    Broken Historical Mind
    The parties of whig and tory are those of nature. they exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of aristocrats and democrats, cote droite and cote gauche, ultras and radicals, serviles and liberals. the sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a tory by nature. the healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a whig by nature.
    Country Strong Party
    No one, i hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. but the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.
    Exercise Government Self
    To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
    Mean Population Pace
    If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
    Lying Enemy Suffering
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