Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary read more

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which read more

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under read more

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.