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13 Best Quotes Thomas Jefferson

2007-02-21 02:25 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Quotes, thursday thirteen
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  1.   " I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.”
  2.  " I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect."
  3. “When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
  4. “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time”
  5. “He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.”
  • 6. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
  • 7. “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
  • 8. “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
  • 9. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;”
  • 10. “I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
  • 11. “I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself.”
  • 12. “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. Light and liberty go together.”
  • 13. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity."
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