Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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 JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLet us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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 JEFFERSONThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON