Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Heaven

• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Judging, Heaven, Looks

  "The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America". 1897.

• If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Political, Heaven

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.585

• 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

• He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Destiny, Heaven, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tree, Heaven, Olive Oil

• Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, War, Struggle

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

• Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Spiritual, Believe, Heaven

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.335, Penguin

• Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Decision, Oracles

• Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Heaven, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

• There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Way, Emancipation

• You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Happiness, Gratitude

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield

• I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Heaven, Exclusion

• If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Heaven, Federalist

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