2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.