Thomas Jefferson quotes was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809) Born: 04/13/1743 Died: 07/04/1826 Country: usa

• Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I cannot live without books. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Health is worth more than learning. (Thomas Jefferson)
• No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson)
• If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Delay is preferable to error. (Thomas Jefferson)
• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it. (Thomas Jefferson)
• No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. (Thomas Jefferson)
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson)
• If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. (Thomas Jefferson)
• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. (Thomas Jefferson)
• A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. (Thomas Jefferson)
• The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. (Thomas Jefferson)

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