The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

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. View more images...

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

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. View more images...

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...