Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I 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 JEFFERSON -
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The 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 JEFFERSON -
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON