Thomas Jefferson
68 quotations
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Tranquility is the old man's milk.
Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.