It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonHistory teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
Thomas JeffersonI hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.
Thomas Jefferson