Thomas Jefferson quotes.

“If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done.”

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

“Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.”

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”

“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.”

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

“Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.”

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

“All men are created equal.”

“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”

“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

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

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”

“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”