Thomas Jefferson Benefits Quotations

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

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

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.