Thomas Jefferson

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

Thomas Jefferson

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Thomas Jefferson

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Thomas Jefferson

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Thomas Jefferson

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson