Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Earth

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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Thomas Jefferson

Animal, Generations, Earth

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.596, Cambridge University Press

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Thomas Jefferson

Garden, People, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.244

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

Garden, Culture, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Independent, Citizens, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.183

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation, Earth, Territory

"Jefferson: Writings".

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Attachment, Liberty, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Thomas Jefferson

Giving Up, Earth, Morality

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.297, Penguin

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.

Thomas Jefferson

People, Peculiar, Earth

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.182, Penguin

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

Life, Inspire, Earth

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.599, Cambridge University Press

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

Thomas Jefferson

Believe, Government, Earth