I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
Thomas JeffersonAll through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.
Thomas JeffersonWere parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
Thomas JeffersonThe general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.
Thomas Jefferson