Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Delay is preferable to error.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Success and Failure

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics

I live for books.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Art and Literature and  Wisdom and Ignorance

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics and  Vice and Virtue

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Wealth and Poverty and  Work and Recreation

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

 Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in  Wisdom and Ignorance