Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

This is the fourth? [ Last words ]

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism — free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence;

Delay is preferable to error.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody. Thomas Jefferson

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil , perhaps with only Homer alone.