[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
Thomas JeffersonThe selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas JeffersonThere is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.
Thomas Jefferson