Famously Said Random quote

People/Thomas Jefferson/Quote

Thomas Jefferson1743–1826

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

Thomas Jefferson on America

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Read it in context

America Freedom Government

Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

More from Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
- Liberty
- War & Peace
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
In: John F. Nash Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation,14 February 2008, p. 11.
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Query XVIII (Richmond, 1853), pp. 174–175
- God

All 73 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

More about America

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- Politics
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)

All 379 quotes about America