Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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
Mean
Provide
Defense
Although
Resources
Policy
Purpose
Peace
Prospect
Means
Competent
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
Thomas Jefferson
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
Thomas Jefferson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
Thomas Jefferson
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas Jefferson
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Thomas Jefferson
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
Thomas Jefferson
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
Thomas Jefferson
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
Thomas Jefferson
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects
Thomas Jefferson
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
Thomas Jefferson
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
Thomas Jefferson
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
Thomas Jefferson
Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Thomas Jefferson