I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
Thomas JeffersonIf, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.
Thomas JeffersonBut under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
Thomas JeffersonSelf-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
Thomas Jefferson