Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

Delay is preferable to error.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.