I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
Thomas JeffersonThe sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas JeffersonWhere the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
Thomas Jefferson