Thomas Jefferson Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”

“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”

“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”

“Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.”

“The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.”

“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.”