" I cannot live without books. "
— Thomas Jefferson
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
" Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it "
— Thomas Jefferson
" All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
— Thomas Jefferson
" The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. "
— Thomas Jefferson
