Thomas Jefferson, Letters Of Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.