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

A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:1. Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.2. Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.3. Never spend your money before you have it.4. Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.5. Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.6. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.7. We never repent of having eat too little.8. Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.9. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.10. Take things always by their smooth handle.11. Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.12. When angry, count 10. Before you speak; if very angry, 100.

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

— Thomas Jefferson

All authority belongs to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

— Thomas Jefferson

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

— Thomas Jefferson

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

— Thomas Jefferson

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

— Thomas Jefferson