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.

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.

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.

It Is Certain, In Any Case, That Ignorance, Allied With Power, Is The Most Ferocious Enemy Justice Can Have.

Love Takes Off Masks That We Fear We Cannot Live Without And Know We Cannot Live Within.

Love Does Not Begin And End The Way We Seem To Think It Does. Love Is A Battle. Love Is A War. Love Is Growing Up.

The Paradox Of Education Is Precisely This - That As One Begins To Become Conscious One Begins To Examine The Society In Which He Is Being Educated.

Nakedness Has No Color: This Can Come As News Only To Those Who Have Never Covered, Or Been Covered By, Another Naked Human Being.

Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, But Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced.

People Are Trapped In History And History Is Trapped In Them.

Perhaps Home Is Not A Place But Simply An Irrevocable Condition.

Neither Love Nor Terror Makes One Blind: Indifference Makes One Blind.

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

People Can Cry Much Easier Than They Can Change.

The Purpose Of Education Is To Create In A Person The Ability To Look At The World For Himself, To Make His Own Decisions.

A Liberal: Someone Who Thinks He Knows More About Your Experience Than You Do.

The Most Dangerous Creation Of Any Society Is The Man Who Has Nothing To Lose.

Precisely At The Point When You Begin To Develop A Conscience, You Must Find Yourself At War With Your Society.

There Are So Many Ways Of Being Despicable It Quite Makes One’s Head Spin. But The Way To Be Really Despicable Is To Be Contemptuous Of Other People’s Pain.

To Be A Negro In This Country And To Be Relatively Conscious Is To Be In A Rage Almost All The Time.

You Have To Decide Who You Are And Force The World To Deal With You, Not With Its Idea Of You.