Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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 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 JEFFERSONHonesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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 JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSON