200 Thomas Jefferson Quotes: Best Lines on Liberty & Wisdom

The Best Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Liberty and Freedom

These thomas jefferson quotes on liberty gather the third president’s most powerful lines — from the Declaration of Independence to his letters on freedom, resistance and the rights of man.

1. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
2. I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
3. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson
4. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson
5. The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson
6. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
7. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson
8. What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? — Thomas Jefferson
9. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson
10. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. — Thomas Jefferson
11. A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson
12. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. — Thomas Jefferson
13. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson
14. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson
15. All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson
16. For ourselves let the annual return of this day, for ever refresh our recollections of these rights and an undiminished devotion to them. — Thomas Jefferson
17. The only birthday I ever commemorate is that of our Independence, the Fourth of July. — Thomas Jefferson
18. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
19. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. — Thomas Jefferson
20. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson
21. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson
22. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
23. It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
24. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
25. The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. — Thomas Jefferson
26. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. — Thomas Jefferson
27. The powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by others. — Thomas Jefferson
28. It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation. — Thomas Jefferson
29. Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. — Thomas Jefferson
30. Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. — Thomas Jefferson
31. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions. — Thomas Jefferson
32. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
33. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson
34. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. — Thomas Jefferson
35. Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. — Thomas Jefferson
36. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. — Thomas Jefferson
37. The Newtonian principle of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in, and to make it an article of necessary faith. — Thomas Jefferson
38. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
39. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged. — Thomas Jefferson
40. My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! — Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Government and Democracy

On government and democracy, these thomas jefferson quotes distill his political philosophy — the consent of the governed, frugal government, and the people’s right to shape their laws.

1. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government. — Thomas Jefferson
2. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. — Thomas Jefferson
3. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. — Thomas Jefferson
4. A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. — Thomas Jefferson
5. Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson
6. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. — Thomas Jefferson
7. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. — Thomas Jefferson
8. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? — Thomas Jefferson
9. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. — Thomas Jefferson
10. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. — Thomas Jefferson
11. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. — Thomas Jefferson
12. I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. — Thomas Jefferson
13. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. — Thomas Jefferson
14. I concur with my friends in congratulations on the anniversary return of the independance and happiness of our country. — Thomas Jefferson
15. The continued repetition of these commemorations thro’ ages to come, and the faithful preservation, pure and unchanged, of the spirit of that great day which gave them birth, will be themes of unceasing prayer with me. — Thomas Jefferson
16. A letter from you calls up recollections very dear to my mind. It carries me back to the times when, beset with difficulties and dangers, we were fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable to man, his right of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson
17. I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson
18. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right. — Thomas Jefferson
19. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson
20. The earth belongs to the living, and not to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson
21. Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. — Thomas Jefferson
22. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. — Thomas Jefferson
23. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them. — Thomas Jefferson
24. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. — Thomas Jefferson
25. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength. — Thomas Jefferson
26. I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson
27. I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. — Thomas Jefferson
28. The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. — Thomas Jefferson
29. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
30. I have never believed that there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. — Thomas Jefferson
31. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively. — Thomas Jefferson
32. The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith. — Thomas Jefferson
33. Encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid. — Thomas Jefferson
34. The diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason. — Thomas Jefferson
35. Freedom of religion. — Thomas Jefferson
36. Freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. — Thomas Jefferson
37. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. — Thomas Jefferson
38. I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. — Thomas Jefferson
39. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. — Thomas Jefferson
40. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. — Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Books, Learning and the Mind

A lifelong reader and founder of the University of Virginia, Jefferson left behind thomas jefferson quotes on books, learning and the mind that still inspire students today.

1. I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson
2. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. — Thomas Jefferson
3. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. — Thomas Jefferson
4. 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. — Thomas Jefferson
5. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. — Thomas Jefferson
6. The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives. — Thomas Jefferson
7. It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
8. Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson
9. I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. — Thomas Jefferson
10. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to. — Thomas Jefferson
11. He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson
12. The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson
13. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson
14. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. — Thomas Jefferson
15. 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
16. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson
17. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. — Thomas Jefferson
18. I make it a rule never to read translations where I can read the original. — Thomas Jefferson
19. Nature has hidden from us her modus agendi. Our only appeal on such questions is to experience. — Thomas Jefferson
20. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! — Thomas Jefferson
21. I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. — Thomas Jefferson
22. Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind. — Thomas Jefferson
23. The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson
24. Paper is poverty; it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. — Thomas Jefferson
25. I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. — Thomas Jefferson
26. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. — Thomas Jefferson
27. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. — Thomas Jefferson
28. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. — Thomas Jefferson
29. I find that my earliest affections are my strongest. — Thomas Jefferson
30. If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. — Thomas Jefferson
31. I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it forever. — Thomas Jefferson
32. 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
33. We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson
34. When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. — Thomas Jefferson
35. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. — Thomas Jefferson
36. Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. — Thomas Jefferson
37. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. — Thomas Jefferson
38. Being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves. — Thomas Jefferson
39. A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson
40. History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Life, Happiness and Character

Beyond politics, these thomas jefferson quotes reveal the man — his love of Monticello, his daily maxims, and his hard-won wisdom on happiness and character.

1. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
2. Interesting occupations are essential to happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
3. Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. — Thomas Jefferson
4. All the tranquillity, the happiness and security of mankind rest on justice. — Thomas Jefferson
5. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. — Thomas Jefferson
6. Rid yourselves of all gloom and melancholy as it flies. — Thomas Jefferson
7. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. — Thomas Jefferson
8. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas Jefferson
9. Take things always by their smooth handle. — Thomas Jefferson
10. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. — Thomas Jefferson
11. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. — Thomas Jefferson
12. Never spend your money before you have it. — Thomas Jefferson
13. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. — Thomas Jefferson
14. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. — Thomas Jefferson
15. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson
16. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. — Thomas Jefferson
17. Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
18. I am to become the most industrious and ardent farmer of the canton. — Thomas Jefferson
19. There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books. — Thomas Jefferson
20. I am as happy nowhere else and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello. — Thomas Jefferson
21. I am then to be liberated from the hated occupations of politics, and to sink into the bosom of my family, my farm and my books. — Thomas Jefferson
22. I never before knew the full value of trees. My house is entirely embosomed in high plane trees, with good grass below, and under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. — Thomas Jefferson
23. Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson
24. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous. — Thomas Jefferson
25. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. — Thomas Jefferson
26. Virtue is not long darkened by the clouds of calumny. — Thomas Jefferson
27. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. — Thomas Jefferson
28. I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. — Thomas Jefferson
29. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
30. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
31. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
32. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
33. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
34. We never repent of having eaten too little. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
35. Health is worth more than learning. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
36. Walking is the best possible exercise. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
37. The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
38. Delay is preferable to error. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
39. I hold it to be a maxim that a man’s reputation is like his shadow. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
40. I hold it to be a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Religion, Reason and Truth

These thomas jefferson quotes on religion and reason show his fearless mind — religious freedom, the wall of separation, and truth as the only safe guide.

1. Almighty God hath created the mind free. — Thomas Jefferson
2. To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson
3. Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson
4. Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson
5. Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson
6. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. — Thomas Jefferson
7. In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson
8. All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. — Thomas Jefferson
9. Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God. — Thomas Jefferson
10. I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and State. — Thomas Jefferson
11. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others. — Thomas Jefferson
12. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
13. History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson
14. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
15. Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law. — Thomas Jefferson
16. The Christian god is a being of terrific character: cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson
17. I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson
18. Had not free enquiry been indulged, at the era of the reformation, the corruptions of Christianity could not have been purged away. — Thomas Jefferson
19. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
20. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. — Thomas Jefferson
21. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? — Thomas Jefferson
22. The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson
23. To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
24. Errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. — Thomas Jefferson
25. The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson
26. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. — Thomas Jefferson
27. I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
28. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. — Thomas Jefferson
29. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. — Thomas Jefferson
30. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson
31. No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief. — Thomas Jefferson
32. All men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. — Thomas Jefferson
33. Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. — Thomas Jefferson
34. The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others. — Thomas Jefferson
35. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. — Thomas Jefferson
36. Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. — Thomas Jefferson
37. The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
38. I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences. — Thomas Jefferson
39. To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
40. The priests have so disfigured the simple religion of Jesus as to make it a thing of mystery. — Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

Frequently Asked Questions About Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the founder of the University of Virginia. He wrote tens of thousands of letters, making him one of the most documented — and most misquoted — figures in American history.

What is Thomas Jefferson’s most famous quote?

His most famous line is from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Are all quotes attributed to Thomas Jefferson real?

No. Jefferson is one of the most misquoted historical figures. Scholars at Monticello maintain a list of spurious quotations, including “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work.” Lines in this article that are widely circulated but doubtful are labeled “Attributed to Thomas Jefferson.”

What did Thomas Jefferson say about books and education?

Jefferson was a lifelong reader who wrote “I cannot live without books” to John Adams in 1815. He believed education was essential to liberty: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

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