Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [humans] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

We confide in our strength without boasting of it; we respect that of others without fearing it.

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.