Thomas Jefferson Men Quotes

What did Thomas Jefferson say about Men?

Thomas Jefferson has written many quotes about Men. E.g.,

• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
• It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

What are the top most famous Men quotes by Thomas Jefferson?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Men by Thomas Jefferson.

• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
• It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
• As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
• I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.