The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Thomas JeffersonI hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.
Thomas JeffersonNothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.
Thomas Jefferson