Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas JeffersonThe excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
Thomas JeffersonA country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
Thomas Jefferson