The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas JeffersonBlest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Thomas JeffersonHow soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
Thomas JeffersonEvery man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
Thomas Jefferson