3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
