Thomas Jefferson

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

Thomas Jefferson

It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.

Thomas Jefferson

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

Thomas Jefferson