Top 164 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.