Thomas Jefferson Quotes

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.