Quotes
Quotes - Jefferson
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
One good act of vengeance deserves another.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
