Quote

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Time
Persuade
Libertarian
Progress
Liberty
Takes
Even
Good
Men

More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Image
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The merchant has no country .
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
Thomas Jefferson
Image
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
Thomas Jefferson