Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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

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

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

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.