The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
Thomas JeffersonIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonIf you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.
Thomas JeffersonGod forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.
Thomas Jefferson