Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than...

#Books

Power is not alluring to pure minds

#Power

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely...

#People, #Power, #Taxation

Delay is preferable to error.

#Delay, #Time

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

#Famous Love, #Love

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and...

#Action, #Courage

This is the fourth?

#Famous Love, #Love

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

#Books

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may...

#Democracy

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

#Civil Rights, #Democracy, #Freedom

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing...

#Democracy

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

#Common Sense, #Confidence