Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Common Sense Quotes

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of...

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or...

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or...

Health is worth more than learning.

Health is worth more than learning.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which...

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which...

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy,...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good...

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its...

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its...

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong,...

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong,...

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want...

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want...

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them...

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them...