Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Jefferson, Thomas
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Jefferson, Thomas
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Jefferson, Thomas
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
Jefferson, Thomas
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Jefferson, Thomas
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Jefferson, Thomas
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Jefferson, Thomas
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Jefferson, Thomas
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Jefferson, Thomas
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Jefferson, Thomas
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Jefferson, Thomas
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Jefferson, Thomas
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Jefferson, Thomas