When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
Thomas JeffersonI am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Thomas JeffersonI do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
Thomas JeffersonAn occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
Thomas JeffersonI candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Thomas Jefferson