While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
Thomas JeffersonI have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
Thomas JeffersonThe cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.
Thomas JeffersonIn a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson