Quotes

“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.” Thomas Jefferson

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” Thomas Jefferson

“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.” Thomas Jefferson

“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” Thomas Jefferson

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

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” Thomas Jefferson

“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.” Thomas Jefferson

“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” Thomas Jefferson

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education” Thomas Jefferson

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

“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.” Thomas Jefferson

“Taste cannot be controlled by law.” Thomas Jefferson

“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” Thomas Jefferson

“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.” Thomas Jefferson

“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.” Thomas Jefferson

“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” Thomas Jefferson

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.” Thomas Jefferson

“Power is not alluring to pure minds” Thomas Jefferson

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.” 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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” Thomas Jefferson

“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” Thomas Jefferson

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.” Thomas Jefferson

“The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.” Thomas Jefferson

“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” Thomas Jefferson

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

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” Thomas Jefferson

“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.” Thomas Jefferson

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney