|
“The glow
of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
- Thomas
Jefferson
|
“Honesty
is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas
Jefferson
|
|
“Where the press is free and every man
able to read, all is safe.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“A democracy is nothing more than mob
rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the
other forty-nine.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“A room without books is like a life
without meaning.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“There is not a truth existing which
I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
- Thomas Jefferson, |
“If a nation expects to be ignorant
and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never
will be.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“I cannot live without books.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Religions are all alike- founded upon
fables and mythologies.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“One man with courage is a majority.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“The whole art of government consists
in the art of being honest.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“When the people fear the government
there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“The most valuable of all talents is
that of never using two words when one will do.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“We in America do not have government
by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Educate and inform the whole mass of
the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our
liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“The man who reads nothing at all is
better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our
power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I
find the harder I work the more I have of it”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Every Generation Needs a New
Revolution”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“The Democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who
would not.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“The most truthful part of a newspaper
is the advertisements.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“I like the dreams of the future
better than the history of the past.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants .”
- 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 |
|
“There is nothing more unequal than
the equal treatment of unequal people.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure
till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“The natural progress of things is
for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
- Thomas Jefferson, |
“It is error alone which needs the
support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“I have no ambition to govern men; it
is a painful and thankless office.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Peace and friendship with all
mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“He who knows nothing is closer to the
truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“When injustice becomes law,
resistance becomes duty.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“I never considered a difference of
opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing
from a friend.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“An honest man can feel no pleasure
in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“Our liberty depends on the freedom
of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“An enemy generally says and believes
what he wishes.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
|
“I believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
“Those who expect to be both ignorant
and free, expect what never was and never will be.”
- Thomas Jefferson |
