There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.
Thomas JeffersonThe cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.
Thomas JeffersonI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas JeffersonIt is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
Thomas Jefferson