All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Affection”

“Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.”
“Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.”
“among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.”
“The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.”
“My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind”
“Thomas Jefferson asked himself â€œIn what country on earth would you rather live â€ He first answered â€œCertainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life.â€ But he continued â€œwhich would be your second choice â€ His answer â€œFrance.”
“The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.”
“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.”
“If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.”
“I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.”
“Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.”

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