The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
Thomas JeffersonI have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
Thomas JeffersonI have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
Thomas Jefferson