Thomas Jefferson

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Thomas Jefferson

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson

For if one link in nature’s chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Thomas Jefferson

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Thomas Jefferson