Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Soldiers

• We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Artist, Soldier

• Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

• The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Country, Military

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

• I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Soldier, Today

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.262, Cosimo, Inc.

• Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Soldier, Divine, Officers

• 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

• One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Soldier, Unnecessary

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