American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Im a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.