Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
Archaeologist
Architect
Cryptographer
Diplomat
Farmer
Inventor
Jurist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Slaveholder
President Jefferson
T. Jefferson
Country
Priest
Every
Hostile
Life
Priests
Birthday
Liberty
Age
Religion
Inspirational
Deist
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
Thomas Jefferson
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
Thomas Jefferson
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
Thomas Jefferson
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Thomas Jefferson
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
Thomas Jefferson
I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
Thomas Jefferson
For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.
Thomas Jefferson
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
Thomas Jefferson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
Thomas Jefferson
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
Thomas Jefferson
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Thomas Jefferson
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
Thomas Jefferson
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
Thomas Jefferson
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
Thomas Jefferson
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
Thomas Jefferson
Men of energy of character must have enemies because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
Thomas Jefferson
Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
