Thomas Jefferson Quotes - Page 2

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

I cannot live without books.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

The dead should not rule the living.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.