Thomas Jefferson

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality.

Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Thomas Jefferson

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

Thomas Jefferson

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Thomas Jefferson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and pure happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Thomas Jefferson