Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Thomas Jefferson

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Of all exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
- Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
- Thomas Jefferson

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
- Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson

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