I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.


As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429. - Posthumous publications

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.