Thomas Jefferson Quotes
September 7, 2010
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
- Thomas Jefferson
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles.
- Thomas Jefferson
Few die and none resign.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Governments are republican only in proportion as they embody the will of the people, and execute it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
