The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonThe sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.
Thomas JeffersonI never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
Thomas Jefferson