Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
- Thomas Jefferson
To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other.
- Thomas Jefferson
When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never was there a country (France) where the practice of governing too much had taken deeper root and done more mischief.
- Thomas Jefferson
No government can continue good but under the control of the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
