3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
