“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson