The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas JeffersonThe same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.
Thomas JeffersonNature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
Thomas JeffersonI find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Thomas JeffersonThe 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. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson