Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Earth

• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Independent, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

• 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

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.239

• Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Children, Hypocrite

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

• Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Citizens, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.183

• Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, People, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.244

• I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Should Have, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.6

• Whenever there are 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. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Business, Men

• With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Europe, Heaven

  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.236

• The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

• Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.496

• Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Attachment, Liberty, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

• Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Peculiar, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Earth, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.297, Penguin

• Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taxation, Earth, Territory

  "Jefferson: Writings".

• What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Hypocrite, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

• Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Attitude, Ambition

• A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct their affairs, has not been seen, perhaps, on earth. Or if it existed for a moment at the birth of ours, it would not be easy to fix the term of its continuance. Still, I believe it does exist here in a greater degree than anywhere else; and for its growth and continuance... I offer sincere prayers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Prayer, Selfish

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.293

• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Practice, Sublime

  "Jefferson: Political Writings".

• The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Educational, Men

• I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Independent, Self

  Letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789.

• The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Issues, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

• The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Heart, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

• When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Respect, Nature, Law

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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