I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
THOMAS JEFFERSONIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON