2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A government big enough to give you everything you need is government big enough to take away everything you have.

Equal and exact justice to all men...freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected – these principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

Coffee: the favorite drink of the civilized world.

And I sincerely believe, with you, 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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.