One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
Thomas JeffersonWhere the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
Thomas JeffersonThe States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.
Thomas JeffersonI find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson