Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. "

Thomas Jefferson

Related Quotes:

" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "

Thomas Jefferson

" One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "

Thomas Jefferson

" No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. "

Thomas Jefferson

" An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. "

Thomas Jefferson

" We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. "

Thomas Jefferson

" As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. "

Thomas Jefferson

" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

Thomas Jefferson

" None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Never spend your money before you have earned it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "

Thomas Jefferson

" 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

" Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. "

Thomas Jefferson

" All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "

Thomas Jefferson

" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. "

Thomas Jefferson