Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Heart

• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Heart, Godly

• The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart

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

• An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Democracy, Informed Citizenry

• The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Government, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.75, Courier Corporation

• The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Heart, Simple

• An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Blessing, Knowing

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.286

• That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

• If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

• I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

• 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

• [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, President, Tongue

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Heart, Character

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

• When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Feet

• The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

• Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Government, Years

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

• I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Heart, School

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.207, Hackett Publishing

• The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.613

• When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Prayer, Heart

• Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Perfect, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

• I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Heart, Thinking

• Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Heart, Mind

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