Thomas Jefferson

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.

Enlighten The People, Generally, And Tyranny And Oppressions Of Body And Mind Will Vanish Like Spirits At The Dawn Of Day.

We Confide In Our Strength, Without Boasting Of It; We Respect That Of Others, Without Fearing It.

Laws And Institutions Must Go Hand In Hand With The General Progress Of The Human Mind.

If A Nation Expects To Be Ignorant And Free, In A State Of Civilization, It Expects What Never Was And Never Will Be.

Every Day Is Lost In Which We Do Not Learn Something Useful. Man Has No Nobler Or More Valuable Possession Than Time.

Nothing Gives One Person So Much Advantage Over Another As To Remain Always Cool And Unruffled Under All Circumstances.

The Care Of Human Life And Happiness, And Not Their Destruction, Is The First And Only Object Of Good Government.

To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical.

The Glow Of One Warm Thought Is To Me Worth More Than Money.

We Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works.

I Find That The Harder I Work, The More Luck I Seem To Have.

The Most Valuable Of All Talents Is That Of Never Using Two Words When One Will Do.

The Man Who Reads Nothing At All Is Better Educated Than The Man Who Reads Nothing But Newspapers.

Walking Is The Best Possible Exercise. Habituate Yourself To Walk Very Far.

In Matters Of Style, Swim With The Current; In Matters Of Principle, Stand Like A Rock.

Honesty Is The First Chapter In The Book Of Wisdom.

I Would Rather Be Exposed To The Inconveniences Attending Too Much Liberty Than To Those Attending Too Small A Degree Of It.

Every Difference Of Opinion Is Not A Difference Of Principle.

I Like The Dreams Of The Future Better Than The History Of The Past.

It Is Neither Wealth Nor Splendor, But Tranquility And Occupation Which Give Happiness.

Do Not Bite At The Bait Of Pleasure Till You Know There Is No Hook Beneath It.

Never Trouble Another For What You Can Do For Yourself.

Never Spend Your Money Before You Have Earned It.

Educate And Inform The Whole Mass Of The People… They Are The Only Sure Reliance For The Preservation Of Our Liberty.

I Do Not Take A Single Newspaper, Nor Read One A Month, And I Feel Myself Infinitely The Happier For It.

Do You Want To Know Who You Are? Don’t Ask. Act! Action Will Delineate And Define You.

I Cannot Live Without Books.

When Angry Count To Ten Before You Speak. If Very Angry, Count To One Hundred.

For People Who Are Free, And Who Mean To Remain So, A Well-organized And Armed Militia Is Their Best Security.

I Never Considered A Difference Of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend.

A Republican Government Is Slow To Move, Yet Once In Motion It’s Momentum Becomes Irresistible.

The Spirit Of Resistance To Government Is So Valuable On Certain Occasions, That I Wish It Always To Be Kept Alive.

Nothing Truly Valuable Can Be Achieved Except By The Unselfish Cooperation Of Many Individuals.

Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal, It Is The Courage To Continue That Counts.

If You Think You Are Too Small To Make A Difference, Try Sleeping With A Mosquito.

Then We Shan’t Regard Anyone As A Lover Of Knowledge Or Wisdom Who Is Fussy About What He Studie.

Time Doesn’t Heal Emotional Pain, You Need To Learn How To Let Go.

Adversity Always Presents Opportunities For Introspection.

Stop Giving Your Life Away To Other People.

It takes a long time to become young.

Life Is Not About Waiting For The Storm To Pass, It Is About Learning To Dance In The Rain.

Your Most Unhappy Customers Are Your Greatest Source Of Learning

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Friends Are Like A Bird, They Die If You Kill Them.

Believe Nothing, No Matter Where You Read It, Or Who Said It, No Matter If I Have Said It, Unless It Agrees With Your Own Reason And Your Own Common Sense.

Disciplining Yourself To Do What You Know Is Right And Importance

Don't Compare Yourself With Anyone In This World.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Price Is What You Pay. Value Is What You Get.