26+ Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

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

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

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."

"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."

"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."

"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."

"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"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?"

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"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."