Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Thomas JeffersonThe application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
Thomas JeffersonThe press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
Thomas Jefferson