Thomas Jefferson Use Quotations

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."

Never use two words when one will do.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

Never use one word when two will do.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.