Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

#Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise...

#Thomas Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

#Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

#Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

#Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

#Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as...

#Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

#Thomas Jefferson

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

#Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

#Thomas Jefferson