Thomas Jefferson

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

He that dies pays all debts.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Debt is the worst poverty.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Only debt is forever.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.