Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
- Thomas Jefferson
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
- Thomas Jefferson
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
- Thomas Jefferson
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
- Thomas Jefferson
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
- Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
- Thomas Jefferson