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Thomas Jefferson



Thomas Jefferson



3rd president of US


Quotes

Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
I cannot live without books.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.


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