"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." Thomas Jefferson
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." Thomas Jefferson
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." Thomas Jefferson
"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." Thomas Jefferson
"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will." Thomas Jefferson
"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." Thomas Jefferson
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson
"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." Thomas Jefferson
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." Thomas Jefferson
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Thomas Jefferson
"Never spend your money before you have it." Thomas Jefferson
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." Thomas Jefferson
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." Thomas Jefferson
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson
"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." Thomas Jefferson
"Health is worth more than learning." Thomas Jefferson
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far." Thomas Jefferson
