I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
Thomas JeffersonNo man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
Thomas JeffersonIn truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas JeffersonI have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
Thomas Jefferson