The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased