Thomas Jefferson Firsts Quotations

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.