Thomas Jefferson Quotes
1743 – 1826
American statesman, principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States.
53 quotesAbout Thomas Jefferson on Wikipedia
“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man!”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
“If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
“There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.”
“Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.”
“Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.”
