Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father, second vice president, and third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels.
WikipediaThomas Jefferson Quotes (12)
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
View quote details β"Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you."
View quote details β"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any."
View quote details β"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
View quote details β"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
View quote details β"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."
View quote details β"Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day."
View quote details β"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
View quote details β"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
View quote details β"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
View quote details β"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
View quote details β"Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves."
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