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- Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. - Jesse Jackson The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. - Reggie Jackson It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. - Clive James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. - William James The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. - William James The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there. - Japanese Proverb I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. - Thomas Jefferson I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. - Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. - Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. - Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. - Thomas Jefferson I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. - Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. - Lord Jeffery It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XXIII Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. - Allyson Jones The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them. - Donald P. Jones Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates. - W. Alton Jones Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. - Erica Jong Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow - Joakim Jonsson Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. - John Junor Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal |