More From Thomas Jefferson
- "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."
- "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
- "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
More In God
- "Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt."― Christopher Hitchens
- "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."― George Washington Carver
- "God’s first creature, which was light."― Francis Bacon