Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
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
Entitle
Whose
Crowned
Talent
Parish
Single
Royalty
Head
Talents
Politics
Elected
America
Merit
Would
People
Europe
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
Thomas Jefferson
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
Thomas Jefferson
One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
Thomas Jefferson
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson
Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.
Thomas Jefferson
It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
Thomas Jefferson
All authority belongs to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
Thomas Jefferson
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
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
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
Thomas Jefferson