Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas JeffersonIf our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas JeffersonEverything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.
Thomas JeffersonTags: morality
When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However [Dr. Rush] observed the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice... I know that Gouverneur Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets
Thomas JeffersonTags: clergy disbelief founding-fathers-religion george-washington gouverneur-morris irreligious morris washington
Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.
Thomas JeffersonTags: banks bank-paper swindling-profits
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
Thomas JeffersonTags: science religion freethinking
no people can be both ignorant and free.
Thomas JeffersonTags: ignorance freedom-of-thought
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)
A little rebellion is good now and then.
Thomas JeffersonTags: rebellion
I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
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