Thomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”

“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.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”

“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”