Thomas Jefferson

"I love the music of the echo in the mountains more than the music of men's applause."

"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."

"The question of his faith shall be left between him and his maker."

"I am a real believer in the beauty of a woman's mind."

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

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."

"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too."

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent."

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth."

"I have a passion for the woods and mountains."

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion."

"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the body, are subject to the laws of nature."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time."

"I believe that one should die young as late as possible."

"To live for today, not yesterday, nor tomorrow, but today."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing."

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

"Taste cannot be controlled by law."

"The most thankful heart is the happiest."

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others."

"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed."