2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.