Author Detail for Thomas Jefferson (12 Quotes)

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1 Thomas Jefferson General Persistence I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have it.
2 Thomas Jefferson Business Economy Never spend your money before you have it.
3 Thomas Jefferson Politics War What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
4 Thomas Jefferson General Pleasure Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
5 Thomas Jefferson Politics Power I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
6 Thomas Jefferson Politics Freedom No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
7 Thomas Jefferson Politics Posterity We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
8 Thomas Jefferson Politics Deficit Spending I sincerely believe . . . 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.
9 Thomas Jefferson Literature Books Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
10 Thomas Jefferson Politics Rights We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
11 Thomas Jefferson General Principles Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
12 Thomas Jefferson General Fear ...how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.