I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON