Top 16 Best Thomas Jefferson Quotes

#1. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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#2. God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)

John Price

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#3. They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

Sharron Angle

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#4. Thomas Jefferson - another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me.

Tina Fey

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#5. Questioning our government's actions does not violate the principles of liberty, equality, and freedom of speech; it exercises them, and by exercise we grow stronger. I have read enough of Thomas Jefferson to feel sure

Barbara Kingsolver

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#6. Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

William J. Clinton

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#7. In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Merrick Rosenberg

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#8. It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

Newt Gingrich

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#9. As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, "In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock.

John C. Maxwell

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#10. A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

Mercy Otis Warren

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#11. Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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#12. Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." - Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

Joe Buff

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#13. In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

Thomas J. Craughwell

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#14. that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760.

Robert G. Torbet

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#15. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]

Thomas Jefferson

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#16. Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, Thomas Jefferson survives.

David McCullough

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