All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Earth”

“Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.”
“Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.”
“With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.”
“Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”
“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.”
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you . . . . From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.”
“The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”
“I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.”
“The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?”
“The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.”

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