Thomas Jefferson Quotes - Page 73

• The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Rights, People

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• No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.292, Algora Publishing

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• The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Strong, Party

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.298, Algora Publishing

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• The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Broken, Historical, Mind

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• Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Hands, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.126

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• Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sex, Delicacy, Want

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1952). “21 May 1781 to 1 March 1784”

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• If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Practice, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.89

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• A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ocean, Pirate, Insulting

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.147

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• Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doubt, Facts, Begets

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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• For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.34, Penguin

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