More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."