Top 164 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.