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.
1816
Quotes you may like!
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. ~ 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
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another’s creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. ~ Thomas Jefferson
