Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Thomas Jefferson

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Thomas Jefferson

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Thomas Jefferson

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Thomas Jefferson