I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

— Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

— Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational for Work Positive Work Work Ethic Productivity

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

— Thomas Jefferson

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

— Thomas Jefferson

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha.

— Thomas Jefferson

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

— Thomas Jefferson

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

— Thomas Jefferson

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

— Thomas Jefferson

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

— Thomas Jefferson

The power of making war often prevents it.

— Thomas Jefferson

With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.

— Thomas Jefferson
Country

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

— Thomas Jefferson

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

— Thomas Jefferson

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

— Thomas Jefferson

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

— Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

— Thomas Jefferson

The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.

— Thomas Jefferson Rusk
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