Thomas Jefferson Bears Quotations

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.