If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
Don’t judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm.
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
Bad promises are better broken than kept.
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
The health you enjoy is largely your choice.
Great men are ordinary men with extraordinary determination.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.
Violence begins where knowledge ends.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
We can succeed only by concert. It is not ’can any of us imagine better?, but ’can we all do better?
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
Why don’t you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders.
I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.