It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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 JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON