Do 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
Never spend your money before you have it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Determine 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 JEFFERSON -
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON