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Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
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