The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
– Thomas Jefferson
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.
– Thomas Jefferson
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
– Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
– Thomas Jefferson
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
– Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
– Thomas Jefferson
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man
– Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson
Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country.
– Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
– Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it.
– Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
– Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
– Thomas Jefferson
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
– Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
– Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
– Thomas Jefferson
Every generation needs a new revolution.
– Thomas Jefferson
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands
– Thomas Jefferson
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 can be done if we are always doing.
– Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
– Thomas Jefferson
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
– Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
– Thomas Jefferson
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.
– Thomas Jefferson
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
– Thomas Jefferson
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.
– Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
– Thomas Jefferson
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time.
– Thomas Jefferson
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
– Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
– Thomas Jefferson
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
– Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
– Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I nap, the more luck I seem to have.
– Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
– Thomas Jefferson
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
– Thomas Jefferson