Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
Thomas JeffersonIt is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
Thomas JeffersonPaper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
Thomas JeffersonGovernments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Thomas Jefferson