Thomas Jefferson

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Thomas Jefferson

He does most in God’s great world who does his best in his own little world.

Thomas Jefferson

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Thomas Jefferson

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Thomas Jefferson