Thomas Jefferson

(third U.S. president 1801--09; born 1743; died 1826)

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

Delay is preferable to error. [Select]

{Category: 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. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Categories: Success and Failure, Work and Recreation}

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

{Category: Law and Politics}

I live for books. [Select]

{Categories: Art and Literature, Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Categories: Law and Politics, Vice and Virtue}

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

{Category: Law and Politics}

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

{Categories: Wealth and Poverty, Work and Recreation}

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

{Category: Law and Politics}

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

Writings {Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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