Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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 JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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 JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSON