Thomas Jefferson Quotes And Sayings

Were It Left To Me To Decide Whether We Should Have A Government Without Newspapers, Or Newspapers Without A Government, I Should Not Hesitate A Moment To Prefer The Latter.

I Am Mortified To Be Told That, In The United States Of America, The Sale Of A Book Can Become A Subject Of Inquiry, And Of Criminal Inquiry Too.

Don't Talk About What You Have Done Or What You Are Going To Do.

One Man With Courage Is A Majority.

Do You Want To Know Who You Are? Don't Ask. Act! Action Will Delineate And Define You.

I Would Rather Be Exposed To The Inconveniences Attending Too Much Liberty Than Those Attending Too Small A Degree Of It.

An Enemy Generally Says And Believes What He Wishes.

Only Aim To Do Your Duty, And Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail.

Nothing Gives One Person So Much Advantage Over Another As To Remain Always Cool And Unruffled Under All Circumstances.

There Is A Natural Aristocracy Among Men. The Grounds Of This Are Virtue And Talents.

In Truth, Politeness Is Artificial Good Humor, It Covers The Natural Want Of It, And Ends By Rendering Habitual A Substitute Nearly Equivalent To The Real Virtue.

We May Consider Each Generation As A Distinct Nation, With A Right, By The Will Of Its Majority, To Bind Themselves, But None To Bind The Succeeding Generation, More Than The Inhabitants Of Another Country.

That Government Is The Strongest Of Which Every Man Feels Himself A Part.

When A Man Assumes A Public Trust He Should Consider Himself A Public Property.

It Is More Dangerous That Even A Guilty Person Should Be Punished Without The Forms Of Law Than That He Should Escape.