Thomas Jefferson – Quotes Crazy

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned. – Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. – Thomas Jefferson

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. – Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. – Thomas Jefferson

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. – Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

Tranquility is the old mans milk. – Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. – Thomas Jefferson

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. – Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Dont ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson