Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
Thomas JeffersonIn a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
Thomas JeffersonAlways take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
Thomas JeffersonWhen I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.
Thomas Jefferson