FAMOUS JEFFERSON QUOTES

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“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.”

“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT FAMILY LOVE

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.'”

“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”