Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas JeffersonSensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
Thomas Jefferson...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.
Thomas JeffersonI am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.
Thomas Jefferson