I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.
Thomas JeffersonI shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.
Thomas JeffersonPerseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.
Thomas JeffersonEstablish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
Thomas Jefferson