Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Life Quotes

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Delay is preferable to error.

Delay is preferable to error.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows...

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of...

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of...

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him...

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of...

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...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers,...

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Tranquility is the old mans milk

Tranquility is the old mans milk

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all...

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all...

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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

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

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.