Thomas Jefferson

Never spend money before you have it.

Savings • Budgeting

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Beliefs • Luck • Motivational

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Procrastination • Productivity • Time

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

Morality • Society • Truth

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

Democracy • Freedom • Government

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

Democracy • Education • Government

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.

Government • Justice • Rights

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

Government • Politics

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

Ignorance • Knowledge • Truth

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

Democracy • Government • Leadership

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship • Gratitude • Happiness

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

Beauty • Jealousy • Wisdom

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

Justice • Morality • Patriotism

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Future • History • Hope

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.

Attitude • Improvement • Motivational

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

Growth • Power • Teaching

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.

Motivational • Productivity • Time

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

Fearlessness • Truth • Worldview

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.

Experience • Government • Power

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.

Government • Happiness • People