100 Inspirational Quotes By Thomas Jefferson, The Author Of The Declaration Of Independence
Thomas Jefferson was one of the most important people of the American Revolution. At seventeen, he was the youngest member of the Continental Congress. Nevertheless, despite his young age, he was blessed with great political skills that made him America’s Founding Father. Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which went on to become the most beautiful and most powerful testaments to liberty and equality in world history. It took him just seventeen days to come up with the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. In addition to being a draftsman, Jefferson’s political pursuits made him hold several important political positions. He was the first diplomat abroad, first Secretary of State, second Vice President of America under John Adams and third President of United States of America. A proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, he motivated American colonists to break free from Great Britain and form a new nation. Jeffered even authored the Statue of Virginia for Religious Freedom and was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. His belief in equality of mankind, liberty of nation and a free-country concept led him to come up with various quotes that have sowed the bud of nationalism and patriotism in his countrymen and even helped them believe in their individualism. Check out some of the quotes by Thomas Jefferson and get enlightened.
I cannot live without books.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more." (Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
![Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/thomas-jefferson-52786.jpg)
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
