An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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 JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON