Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I cannot live without books.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Delay is preferable to error.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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.

The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The most successful warrior is the one who controls the battlefield of their own mind.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Never spend your money before you have it.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson Quotes part 2

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

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

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Walking is the best possible exercise.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I cannot live without books.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Information is the currency of democracy.