2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at at home in the bosom of my family.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.

When the people fear their government, their is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood and of tyrants and patriots.