Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Taste cannot be controlled by law. That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
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