Thomas Jefferson quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents...
Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, count a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. (Thomas Jefferson)
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. (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.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson