Thomas Jefferson Quotes Page 2
Best 56 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson – Page 2 of 2
“Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody.”
“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.”
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”
“Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.”
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
“The dead should not rule the living.”
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
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“Mathematics is the sole guarantor of rational truth. Even modern science bows to mathematics and it is precisely for that reason that religion and science can once again be brought back together. Mathematics is the glue that binds religion and science. It is the only religious language that science understands. All other religious statements are ridiculous nonsense. All
declarations of faith and revelation are preposterous and laughable. They are the essence of antimathematics, hence they are utterly false.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”
“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.”
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
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“I had very little connection with Henry Lee during the war and I found him vain and uncooperative.”
