Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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

#Luck

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

#Medicine

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness

#Motherhood

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

#Money, #Thought

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

#Money

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

#Newspapers

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which...

#America And Americans, #Obedience

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

#God, #Obedience, #Tyranny

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but...

#Oppression, #Slavery, #Tyranny

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

#Pain, #Praise

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

#Patriotism

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

#Peace, #War