Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
Thomas JeffersonNever was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
Thomas JeffersonI candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Thomas JeffersonI cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
Thomas Jefferson