Leader Archives - Pictorial Quotes

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

Zachary Taylor

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

Zachary Taylor

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

Zachary Taylor

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.

Zachary Taylor

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

Zachary Taylor

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.

Zachary Taylor

I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

Zachary Taylor

In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

Zachary Taylor

In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

Zachary Taylor

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

Zachary Taylor

As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

Zachary Taylor

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

Zachary Taylor

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party – I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Zachary Taylor

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

Zachary Taylor

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

Zachary Taylor

I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

Zachary Taylor

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

Zachary Taylor

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Zachary Taylor

I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

Zachary Taylor

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Zachary Taylor

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Zachary Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Zachary Taylor

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

Zachary Taylor

I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

Zachary Taylor

As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations.

Yasser Arafat

I would like to congratulate my partners in peace – Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister – on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yasser Arafat

I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.

Yasser Arafat

How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.

Yasser Arafat

Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.

Yasser Arafat

We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.

Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

It’s always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Yasser Arafat

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Yasser Arafat

The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on ‘land for peace’ and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.

Yasser Arafat

Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.

Yasser Arafat

The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today’s world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity.

Yasser Arafat

We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

Yasser Arafat

I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and proceed with reconstruction and the rebuilding of infrastructures.

Yasser Arafat

I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.

Yasser Arafat

Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.

Yasser Arafat

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Yasser Arafat

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

Yasser Arafat

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Yasser Arafat

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Yasser Arafat

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

Yasser Arafat

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Yasser Arafat

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Winston Churchill

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Winston Churchill

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Winston Churchill

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

‘No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Vladimir Lenin

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Vladimir Lenin

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Vladimir Lenin

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Vladimir Lenin

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Vladimir Lenin

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Vladimir Lenin

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Vladimir Lenin

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes – history needs a push.

Vladimir Lenin

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Vladimir Lenin

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Vladimir Lenin

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Vladimir Lenin

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

Vladimir Lenin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Vladimir Lenin

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Vladimir Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir Lenin

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Ulysses S. Grant

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

Ulysses S. Grant

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Ulysses S. Grant

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Ulysses S. Grant

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

Ulysses S. Grant

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.

Ulysses S. Grant

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.

Ulysses S. Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Ulysses S. Grant

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

Let us have peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Ulysses S. Grant

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Ulysses S. Grant

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Ulysses S. Grant

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Thomas Paine

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Thomas Paine

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Thomas Paine

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Thomas Paine

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Thomas Paine

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men’s souls.

Thomas Paine

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Thomas Paine

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Thomas Paine

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.

Thomas Paine

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Thomas Paine

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Thomas Paine

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

My mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Thomas Paine

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Thomas Paine

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Thomas Paine

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Thomas Paine

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Thomas Paine

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Thomas Paine

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Thomas Paine

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Thomas Paine

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Thomas Paine

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Thomas Jefferson

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Thomas Jefferson

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Thomas Jefferson

Here was buried Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Thomas Jefferson

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Thomas Jefferson

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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