Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
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
Effort
Practice
Malice
Values
Falsehood
Work
Sincerity
Things
Efforts
Vain
Proof
Value
More quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
Thomas Jefferson
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
Thomas Jefferson
I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Thomas Jefferson
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
Thomas Jefferson
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas Jefferson
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
Thomas Jefferson
I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
Thomas Jefferson
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed what they were fond of before has become indifferent they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
Thomas Jefferson
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas Jefferson
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson