Thomas Jefferson Good Quotations

The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

A little revolution is a good thing.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

What i value more than all things, good humor.