01c. 1784 ADThe people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
02c. 1784 ADWhenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
03c. 1784 ADI have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
05c. 1784 ADNo man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
06c. 1784 ADOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
08c. 1784 ADA republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
12c. 1784 ADWalking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
14c. 1784 ADI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
15c. 1784 ADI like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
17c. 1784 ADWar is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
18c. 1784 ADNo nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
19c. 1784 ADHow much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
20c. 1784 ADI am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
21c. 1784 ADI hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
22c. 1784 ADI hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
23c. 1784 ADOne loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
