Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.