Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

“To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement”

“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”

“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

“Im a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”

“The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.”

“Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it”

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”

“Moral principle is the foundation of law.”

“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”

“I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.”

“The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.”

“Dont talk about what you have done or what you are going to do”

“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog”

“If you call one wolf, you invite the pack”

“Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey”

“Last night I was dreamed that I was chasing a pack of wolves, trying to belong”

“You can take the dog out of the Wolf Pack, But you cant take the Wolf Pack out of the dog”