List of quotes from Thomas Jefferson
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
by Notes on the State of Virginia Thomas Jefferson
"I live for books."
by Thomas Jefferson
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
by Notes on Virginia Thomas Jefferson
"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
by Thomas Jefferson
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
by Thomas Jefferson
"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."
by Thomas Jefferson
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."
by Resolutions Thomas Jefferson
"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
by Jr. letter to James Lewis Thomas Jefferson
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
by letter to John Melish Thomas Jefferson
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
by Thomas Jefferson