Without virtue, happiness cannot be. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2004). Light …

Thomas Jefferson
1179 citations
Without virtue, happiness cannot be. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2004). Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, p.6, Modern Library
Reflection
22

More Author Quotes

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washin … ▶
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ✨ Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ✨ Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). Paine and Jefferson on Liberty, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 3 … ▶

Without virtue, happiness cannot be. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2004). Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, p.6, Modern Library

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes