Thomas Jefferson

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it as it goes.

Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson