Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson

Today, Tomorrow, Soldier

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Silence, Religious, Notice

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Trying, Put, Place

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Successful, Seldom

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

Good, Bad, Find

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Enough, Wish

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson

Reason, Against, Ridicule

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Glory, Conquest, Armies

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Great, Thought

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace, America, While

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Wrong, Toward

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Human, Natural

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Children, Between, Learn

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Natural, Virtue

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Opinion, Mankind

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Easy, Office

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: April 13, 1743

Died: July 4, 1826

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