2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.

Information is the currency of democracy.

But all theory must lead to experience, and every constitution has its own laws.

Happiness is the aim of life. Virtue is the foundation of happiness. Utility is the test of virtue. If the wise be the happy man, as the sages say, he must be virtuous too; for without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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