The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.
Thomas JeffersonThe plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
Thomas JeffersonThe happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
Thomas Jefferson