A Centennial of Wisdom: 100 Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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Thomas Jefferson Quotes

1. “I cannot live without books.”
2. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
3. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
4. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
5. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
6. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
7. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
8. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
9. “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
10. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
11. “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
12. “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
13. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
14. “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.”
15. “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.”
16. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
17. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
18. “Every generation needs a new revolution.”
19. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
20. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
21. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
22. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
23. “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”
24. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
25. “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
26. “Delay is preferable to error.”
27. “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
28. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
29. “I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
30. “Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
31. “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.”
32. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
33. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
34. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
35. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
36. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
37. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
38. “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
39. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
40. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
41. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
42. “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”
43. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
44. “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
45. “Delay is preferable to error.”
46. “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
47. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
48. “I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
49. “Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
50. “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.”