In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
Information is the currency of democracy. – Thomas Jefferson
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it. – Thomas Jefferson
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. – Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. – Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
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
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. – Thomas Jefferson
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. – Thomas Jefferson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! – Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. – Thomas Jefferson
