Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
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 JEFFERSON