Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

One man with courage is a majority.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.