Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Desire

• 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

  Desire, Slavery, States

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.111

• 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

  Ambition, Law, Community

• The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Strong, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.514

• The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Giving, Desire

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.77, Algora Publishing

• I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Desire, May

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.292

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