Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
Thomas JeffersonDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonThe introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
Thomas JeffersonWe must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Thomas Jefferson