Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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
Government
Every
Acknowledged
Men
Legitimate
Objects
Equal
Rights
Happiness
Individual
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
Thomas Jefferson
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
Thomas Jefferson
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
Thomas Jefferson
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
Thomas Jefferson
My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.
Thomas Jefferson
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
Thomas Jefferson
The merchant has no country .
Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
Thomas Jefferson
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
Thomas Jefferson
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
Thomas Jefferson
