Thomas Jefferson Quotes

• "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
• "All men are created equal."
• "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education."
• "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."
• "We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
• "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
• "What is it men cannot be made to believe!"
• "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
• "When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."