Thomas Jefferson
68 quotations
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
This is the fourth?
We seldom report of having eaten too little.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Information is the currency of democracy.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.