2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

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.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

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

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

The dead should not rule the living.