The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
Thomas JeffersonThe interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
Thomas JeffersonI hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.
Thomas Jefferson