Thomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

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

“One man with courage is a majority.”

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?”

“I cannot live without books.”

“In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.”

“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.”