GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
“I cannot live without books.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” = Thomas Jefferson
“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson