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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I Cannot Live Without Books.

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.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make but about the stories you tell.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

You Never Know When A Moment And A Few Sincere Words Can Have An Impact On A Life.

You Can Never Solve A Problem On The Level On Which It Was Created.

Don’t Count The Things You Do, Do The Things That Count.

The Happiest Man Is He Who Learns From Nature The Lesson Of Worship

What Keeps Life Fascinating Is The Constant Creativity Of The Soul.

When Greed Is Enthroned, Be It In A Community Or Nation, Ungodliness Is Celebrated At The Altar Of Human Pleasure.

Your Time Is Limited, So Don't Waste It Living Someone Else's Life.

You can start where you are with what you’ve got and go to wherever it is you want to go.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

If Your Life Is Worth Thinking About, It Is Worth Writing About.

Success comes when opportunity meets preparation.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.

When You Have Exhausted All Possibilities, Remember This - You Haven't.