" The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥31SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessLife Quotes
" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥24SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life: 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. (letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825) " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥29SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" 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 ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥30SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥16SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. letter to Connecticut Baptists " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥27SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. 1816" ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" [A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
