Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Difficulty

• The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Experience, Ordinary

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.252

• Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Air

• Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Giving, Liberty

• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

• Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Writing, Years

• He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Force, Difficulty

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.447, Cosimo, Inc.

• Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Common Sense, Honest, Sometimes

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.64

• The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Bureaucracy, Difficulty

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