It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.---Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.--Thomas jefferson
Q#1624-Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Q#1620-Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Q#1616-Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Q#1618-Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Q#1619-Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Q#1660-Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Q#1661-Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Q#1662-Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Q#1658-Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.