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 JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON