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.

The Only Thing That You Absolutely Have To Know Is The Location Of The Library

Do Not Pray For Easy Lives. Pray To Be Stronger Men.

So Long As You Fight The Darkness, You Stand In The Light.

Be Like The Flower That Gives Its Fragrance To Even The Hand That Crushes It.

If You Do What You've Always Done, You'll Get What You've Always Gotten.

Life Has No Limitations, Except The Ones You Make.

If The Farmer Is Rich, Then So Is The Nation.

All My Problems Bow Before My Stubbornness.

Freedom Is Not Given - It Is Taken.

Be Silent And Safe, Silence Never Betrays You.

One Individual May Die For An Idea, But That Idea Will, After His Death, Incarnate Itself In A Thousand Lives.

Soldiers Who Always Remain Faithful To Their Nation, Who Are Always Prepared To Sacrifice Their Lives, Are Invincible.

The Secret Of Political Bargaining Is To Look More Strong Than What You Really Are.

No Real Change In History Has Ever Been Achieved By Discussions.

Give Me Blood And I Will Give You Freedom!

Well-being Is Enough Wealth.

Live With Your Dreams.

The Man Who Moves A Mountain Begins By Carrying Away Small Stones.