01c. 1784 ADDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
02c. 1784 ADNature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
03c. 1784 ADNew York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
05c. 1784 ADWhen describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
07c. 1784 ADHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
08c. 1784 ADEnlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
09c. 1784 ADAll eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
10c. 1784 ADWhen we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
11c. 1784 ADAdvertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
13c. 1784 ADBanking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
14c. 1784 ADNo knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
16c. 1784 ADNo government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
17c. 1784 ADI 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1784 ADI am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
20c. 1784 ADIt is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
21c. 1784 ADThe habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
22c. 1784 ADWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
23c. 1784 ADThe happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
24c. 1784 ADThose who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.Thomas Jefferson / quote ↗
