Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
Thomas JeffersonIt be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.
Thomas JeffersonWhen habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.
Thomas JeffersonIt is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
Thomas Jefferson