Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIn questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSON