Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. – Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge is power. – Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it. – Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. – Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – 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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. – Thomas Jefferson

On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

Quotes by Thomas Jefferson part 2

Every generation needs a new revolution. – Thomas Jefferson

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – Thomas Jefferson

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. – Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is worth more than money. – Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

The most successful people in life are those who are constantly learning and growing. – Thomas Jefferson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. – Thomas Jefferson

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity. – Thomas Jefferson

Banks have done more injury to religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have brought or ever will bring it good. – Thomas Jefferson

The only security of all is in a free press. – Thomas Jefferson

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. – Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. – Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. – Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. – Thomas Jefferson

The god who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. – Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is not built on the doctrine that a few nobles have the right to inherit the earth. – Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. – Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. – Thomas Jefferson