Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
-
-
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
We never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSON -
The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSON






