Quotes Added in May 2007

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves.Thomas Jefferson

• government

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson

• freedom
• slavery

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared.Thomas Jefferson

• debt
• thrift

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual profusion and servitude.Thomas Jefferson

• government
• taxes

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

• government
• taxes

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.Henry David Thoreau

• government

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, 'What are we busy about?'Henry David Thoreau

• priorities

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?Henry David Thoreau

• goals
• persistence
• ambition

Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it.Harry Truman

• leadership