Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these …

Thomas Jefferson
1179 citations
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2012). Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, p.40, Simon and Schuster
Humanity Politics Reading
26

More Author Quotes

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wron … ▶
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all o … ▶
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). The Writings of Thomas Je … ▶
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787, p.181, Cosimo, Inc.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes