Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property…

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road…

If God is just, I tremble for my country…

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

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I…

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may…

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and…

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause…

One man with courage is a majority…

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise…

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of…

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less…

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of…

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses…

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life…