"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
― Thomas Jefferson
Topic(s):
Good
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."
- "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
- "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."
More In Good
- "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."― Niccolo Machiavelli
- "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it."― Wendell Berry
- "If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time."― Edith Wharton