I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
Thomas JeffersonMan, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
Thomas JeffersonThough written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
Thomas Jefferson... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
Thomas Jefferson