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Quotes by

Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority. – Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. – 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. – Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows. – Thomas Jefferson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. – 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. – Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – 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. – Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. – Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

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

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. – Thomas Jefferson

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. – Thomas Jefferson