Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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
Longer
Find
Offices
Bureaucracy
Candidates
Difficulty
Office
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
Thomas Jefferson
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.
Thomas Jefferson
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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
Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Thomas Jefferson
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us we shall destroy them all.
Thomas Jefferson
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
Thomas Jefferson
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
Thomas Jefferson
The merchant has no country .
Thomas Jefferson
Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
Thomas Jefferson
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
Thomas Jefferson
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
Thomas Jefferson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
Thomas Jefferson
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.
Thomas Jefferson
